Educational Equity and Literacy Practices in the “Transnational Local”

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium, scholars from various institutions explore how a faith-based site serves as a “transnational local”, where community language and literacy practices are located within “multiple national affiliations, fluid migration histories, global technological networks, and plural identities” (p. 2, Author, 2016). Each study is nested within a five-year community-university partnership, and together explore how the literacy practices and epistemologies of the “transnational local” may inform equity-based literacy education in/out of schools.

Content Area

• Area 7: Social, Cultural, and Political Issues of Literacy Practices In and Out of School

Chair

• Maria Paula Ghiso, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussant

• María E Franquíz, The University of Utah

Individual Presentations

• Community Researchers Project: The Role of Care in Critical Work - Grace D. Player, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education; Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania

• Multiliteracies, the Arts, and Postcolonial Agency - David E Low, California State University, Fresno

• Coalitional Literacies in a Participatory ESOL Program - Alicia Rusoja, University of Pennsylvania; Emily Rose Schwab, University of Pennsylvania