The Truth Is in Our Stories: Advancing Humanizing Narrative Research Methods in Teacher Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium, panelists discuss critical literacies that inform our approach to narrative inquiry and research. Presenting qualitative research from four unique studies that use humanizing and decolonizing narrative methodologies, we examine testimonios, critical silences, Hip Hop pedagogies, and poetic inquiry as valid forms of knowing and re-membering. The panelists explore how we negotiated the complex interrelationships between our lived experiences and those of our participant-collaborators. This symposium demonstrates the centering of antiracist narrative methodologies with and alongside oppressed groups. Our goal is to advance research methods that sustain linguistic identities and build solidarity for social change. This symposium represents the braiding of our collective stories, experiences, histories, and truths into a mosaic of possibilities and futures in narrative research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Narrative Research

Chair

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Our Stories Are Valid: The Power of Testimonios in Transforming an English Language Arts Classroom in New York City - Christine A. Feliciano-Barrett, KIPP: NYC

• Hearing Silences: Critical Literacies in a Secondary English Education Classroom - Diana Liu, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Remixing Narrative Inquiry With Hip-Hop Pedagogies, Poetics, and Literacies - Brian Mooney, Fairleigh Dickinson University

• These Are Our Stories: Reimagining a Critical Lens for Black and Brown Scholars' Identities - David O. Beauzil, Teachers College, Columbia University