Reimagining FYC: Justice-Driven Visions for Learning and Liberation

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 3:45 pm - Gold 4
  In Roundtable Session: Literacies of Equity and Liberation in Higher Education

Abstract

This participatory action research contributes to conversations on equity, linguistic justice, and local adaptations of national writing frameworks. Focusing on the revision of first-year composition outcomes at an R1 university, it historicizes the collaborative work of graduate instructors—many BIPOC women, the program coordinator, and students to reshape curricula through a socially conscious lens. Findings from our document analysis show collective values and challenges centering student voices, experiences, and cultural knowledge in composition education. Results offer a pathway for institutions aiming to align writing outcomes with linguistic justice, citation justice, and anti-racist pedagogy.

Authors

• Anna Carolina Peñaloza, University of California - Davis

• Sanjana Dhamankar, University of California - Davis

• Ana Delmy Castellon, University of California - Davis