44.065 - Literacies of Social Transformation: Enacting Freirean Perspectives Across Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium examines literacies of social transformation across educational contexts. Pulling from Freirean perspectives of education, the following papers address how “knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry [we] pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other” (Freire, 1970, p. 53). These four scholars identify as “cultural workers” (Freire, 1998b), meaning those who learn from and alongside the communities they serve. As researchers, faculty and community workers, these presentations will demonstrate forms of praxis as a model for teaching, K-16 teacher development, and critical literacy. This session will culminate in a dialogue on the role of critical consciousness at a time of social and political unrest.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Emancipation

Chair

• Keisha McIntosh Allen, University of Maryland - Baltimore County

Papers

• Trump Effect in a Second-Grade Dual-Language Classroom: Exploring Literacies of Social Transformation - Sandra Lucia Osorio, Illinois State University

• Picturing Raza Studies: Exploring Youth Literacies of Social Transformation - Cati V. de los Rios, Teachers College, Columbia University

• "I Also Like to Write": Enacting Literacies of Social Transformation Among Black Male Secondary Students - Sakeena Everett, University of Illinois at Chicago

• The Role of Environmental Safety Zones in the Critical Consciousness of Latina/o Migrant Farmworker Youth - Lorena Gutierrez, University of California Riverside

Discussant

• Clifford H. Lee, Saint Mary's College of California