Enhancing Multiliteracies of Diverse Populations Through Community-Engaged Methods

Session Submission Type: Alternative Format Session

Abstract

Community literacies offer transformative social spaces where learners' funds of knowledge, identities, and cultural-linguistic backgrounds are valued, sustaining linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of democratic education. This session presents six studies grounded in diverse theoretical frameworks, highlighting community-based research collaborations with K–12 schools, community educators, youth, immigrant families, and out-of-school institutions to support pluralistic literacy practices and civic engagement.

Content Area

• AREA 7. Critical, Cultural, and Social Issues of Literacy Practices In and Out of School

Chair

• Susan V Bennett, University of South Florida

Discussant

• AnnMarie Alberton Gunn, University of South Florida

Presenters

• Kristin Valle Geren, University of South Florida

• Alexandra Panos, University of South Florida

• Mellissa Teston, University of South Florida

• Katharine Hull, University of South Florida

• Yuechen Sun, University of South Carolina

• Yiting Chu, University of South Florida

• Min Yu, Wayne State University

• Steve Hart, CSU-Fresno

• Pengju Guan, University of South Florida