Enacting Critical Literacy Across the Educational Spectrum: Journeys from Theory to Action

Session Submission Type: Alternative Format Session

Abstract

This interactive presentation traces the experiences of four teachers, representing different points along the educational spectrum (from elementary school to college), who make bold attempts to incorporate critical literacy into everyday classroom practice. By leveraging a range of modalities from video to reader’s theater to textual illustrations, the teachers will individually, and collectively, articulate concrete strategies for incorporating critical literacy practices into P-20 classrooms.

Content Area

• Area 2: In-service Teacher Education/Professional Development in Literacy

Individual Presentations

• Interrogating Columbus: Fostering Authentic Inquiry in the Elementary Classroom - Elizabeth Herrera, Albuquerque Public Schools

• Unpacking Stereotypes: Developing Critical Perspectives with Middle School Students - Kahlil Simpson, Albuquerque Public Schools

• Investigating Identities: Reconstructing Notions of the "Other" in YA Lit - Annmarie Sheahan, University of New Mexico

• Deconstructing College Composition: Mobilizing critical literacies to question, problematize and create texts - Breanne Potter, University of New Mexico