"The Only Light We've Got": Storytelling and Critical Literacies as Method and Antiracist Praxis

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 9

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session features papers utilizing innovative theoretical and qualitative research methods that center on humanizing research through the exchange of stories and the dialogic raising of critical consciousness. Diverse storytelling methods are explored through critical race theory applications to grounded theory, and Indigenous storytelling methods in TribalCrit. These considerations are paired, in this session, with an exploration of critical literacies and storytelling methods in hip hop and comic pedagogies. Through all of these papers, a critical analysis of racial justice and the breaking down of hierarchies is centered, so that storytelling methods become both the framing for critical literacies and representations, and the avenue for antiracist praxis.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Peter Newlove, University of Colorado - Denver

Papers

• "This Is Our Fight": Stories of Radical Care and Subversive Teaching - Peter Newlove, University of Colorado - Denver

• Colonization and Erasure: The Experiences of Indigenous Students in K–12 - junior reina

• Getting Into Good Trouble - Anya Prosser, Teachers College, Columbia University

• In Search of New Suns: Critical Counternarrative Construction Through Afrofuturist Comic Creation - Michael B. Dando, St Cloud State University