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Session Type: Symposium
To foster restorative practices, it is crucial to create spaces that refuse popular literacy policy and discourse which has been anti-Black, overly focused on deficits, and has mandated linear, cultureless teaching approaches. As such, the proposed symposia foregrounds multilayered stories grounded in research findings on culturally sustaining pedagogies across a range of early literacy research and practice contexts. Our primary goal is for participants to be able to contribute to a more loving and just future of culturally sustaining pedagogies with and for Black and other minoritized young children.
Toward a Cultural Sustenance View of Reading - Kindel Turner Nash, Appalachian State University; Roderick Peele, Northern Parkway School; Kerry Elson, Central Park East II; Alicia Arce-Boardman, Northern Parkway Elementary; Erik J. Sumner, Uniondale School District; Bilal Polson, Northern Parkway School
Revolutionary Love: Centering the Full Humanity of Children in Early Literacy Curriculum - Michele Myers, Wake Forest University; Eliza G. Braden, University of South Carolina; Sanjuana Carrillo Rodriguez, Kennesaw State University; Kamania Wynter-Hoyte, University of South Carolina; Natasha A. Thornton, Spelman College
Children's Literature for Cultural Sustenance - Ekaterina Strekalova-Hughes, University of Missouri - Kansas City; Nora Peterman, University of Missouri - Kansas City; Richard M. Minaya, University of Missouri - Kansas City; Teaira C. McMurtry, University of Alabama - Birmingham; Sakeena Everett, University of Connecticut; Roberta P. Gardner, Kennesaw State University
A Seat at the Table: Reimagining Multilingual Culturally Sustaining Spaces for Young Black Children - Brittany Frieson, University of Texas at Austin
The good cops, bad cops, bullets, and wounds: Culturally Sustaining Prison Abolition Literacies - Nathaniel Bryan, University of Texas at Austin; Rachel McMillian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sociopolitical Comprehension Instruction: Using Multicultural Children's Literature to Engage Experiential Knowledge as Intellectual Meaning-Making - Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Virginia; Saba Khan Vlach, University of Iowa; MarĂa G. Leija, University of Texas - San Antonio