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(White) Abolitionist Literacy Teachers

Sun, April 14, 11:25am to 12:55pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 204ABC

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Research on social illiteracy (Rand, 2021) and the demographic imperative (Jupp et al, 2019) convey the urgency of attending to both barriers and possibilities for White literacy teachers. As literacy is inextricably linked with equity, literacy classrooms mark a site of sanctioning or resisting oppressions. Through articulations of critical race and whiteness frameworks, this research aims to explore the practices of White antiracist literacy educators. Rooted in a conceptual framework of "rehumanizing praxis," this inquiry prioritizes humanizing research through interviews, observations, reflections, and a focus group. Situated in critical constructivist grounded theory methodology, I share research devoted to making visible the internal and external barriers and possibilities White abolitionist teachers experience in their endeavors to participate in liberatory education.

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