Becoming Comfortable with the Uncomfortable: Moments of Tension in Critical Literacy Teacher Research

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium includes the work of four teacher-researchers who have grappled with critical literacy in different contexts. Each teacher-researcher will discuss and unpack the inevitable tensions in their individual research context to illustrate the productive potential of such moments to spark new possibilities in the classroom and lead students (and teacher-researchers) to reconsider texts and the world around them.

Content Area

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

Chair

• Meredith Labadie, Crestwood Elementary School

Discussant

• Hilary Janks, Wits University

Individual Presentations

• Rereading Tensions in the Critical Literacy Classroom - Meredith Labadie, Crestwood Elementary School

• Making Place Through Poetry - Katherine O'Daniels, University of Missouri-St. Louis

• Back and Forth: Editor and Author - Lee Heffernan, Fairview Elementary

• Critical Tensions in Social Justice Teaching - Scott Storm, Harvest Collegiate High School