Asset Pedagogies in Teacher Education: Engaging Preservice Teachers in Family, Community, and Out-of-School Literacies

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session includes four talks, presenting how five teacher educators incorporate family, community, multicultural literature, and out-of-school literacies into teacher education programs. This session showcases innovative pedagogical strategies to center on multiculturalism and multilingualism within literacy courses and extracurricular activities. Grounded in the concept of literacy as power, emancipation, critical thought, and self-agency, each teacher educator created opportunities for predominantly white teacher candidates to experience rich points or rupture in their teacher preparation program.

Content Area

• AREA 1. Pre-service Teacher Education in Literacy

Chair

• Kristen L. Pratt, Western Oregon University

Discussant

• Kwangok Song, University of Kansas

Individual Presentations

• Bringing Family Literacy to Classroom: Redesign of ELA Preservice Teacher Methods Courses for Equitable Instruction - Min-Seok Choi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Jungmin Lee, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

• Pre-service Teachers’ Journey in Book Club: Theories into Practice - Sunah Chung, University of Northern Iowa

• Transnational Reading: Preservice Teachers’ Response to Multicultural Children’s Literature - HeeYoung Kim, West Texas A&M University

• Projective Agency of Preservice Teachers: Enacting Culturally Sustaining Translanguaging Literacy Pedagogy - Heeok Jeong, Stephen F. Austin State University