Transforming literacy, transforming justice: Toward a Restorative English Education

• In Event: Fostering Discussion-Based Disciplinary Learning Through Shared Reading Experiences

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The purpose of this panel is to demonstrate the ways in which educators and teacher educators are creating tools to foster O’Reilly’s notion of the “peaceable classroom” in schools and in out-of-school contexts. Panelists—researchers and teacher educators—share data from their work on intersections of literature, religion, identity and justice. More specifically, this panel addresses the role of literacy and literacy classrooms in practicing justice.

Content Area

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

Chair

• Maisha T. Winn, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Discussant

• Gay Ivey, UW Madison

Individual Presentations

• Reading and Writing for Social Change: Exploring the Role of Literacy in the Lives of Muslim Girls - Gholnescar Muhammad, Georgia State University

• To Practice Justice: Teaching English in the Age of Incarceration - Maisha T. Winn, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Transformative Possibilities: Restorative Justice Work in Literacy Spaces - Hannah Graham, UW Madison