Critical Literacies: Investigating Textual Linguistic Representations to Engage Productive Identity Wrestling and Civic Reasoning

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium addresses the pedagogical and conceptual challenges and opportunities in middle/high school of supporting the development of critical literacy skills and civic dispositions through the study of literature and history, with the goals of identity development in tandem with preparation for civic engagement. Presentations include longitudinal studies of use of a digital authoring tool for critical literacies in literature and history along with a longitudinal study of the underlying pedagogical model of scaffolding students’ everyday linguistic, social and epistemological repertoires to support such critical literacies across content areas.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 3: Languages, Literacies, and Representations

Chair

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley

Papers

• Identity Wrestling as a Pedagogical Resource for Guiding Complex Literary Reasoning - Yolanda J. Majors, Hurston Institute For Learning & Development

• Literary Critical Literacies: Scaffolding Identity Wrestling/Civic Reasoning With Sense-Making in the Disciplines Digital Tool - Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University

• Challenges of Critical Literacies in Historical Reasoning - Adria Carrington, DuSable Leadership Academy, Betty Shabazz International Charter School; Susan R. Goldman, University of Illinois at Chicago; Allison H. Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago

Discussant

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley