Peer reviewed
Direct linkERIC Number: EJ1461146
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Mar
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-0561
EISSN: EISSN-1936-2714
Available Date: 2025-02-12
From Dreaming of Freedom to Freedom Dreaming: Developing Students' Abolitionist Praxis through Interdisciplinary Literacy Instruction
Reading Teacher, v78 n5 p267-278 2025
This qualitative study examines how elementary students of Color develop and enact an abolitionist praxis as part of a "Freedom Dreaming" literacy unit. The analysis of focus-group interviews elucidates how, after learning about freedom dreaming and the abolition of prisons and police, students positioned historical anti-carceral activism as something occurring in the present and students leveraged their historical and contemporary understanding of anti-carceral activism to enact their own freedom dreaming toward abolishing carcerality within their school. Our findings reveal the transformative potential of centering freedom dreaming and the abolition of prisons and police in elementary literacy instruction.
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Minority Group Students, Freedom, Activism, Correctional Institutions, Social Justice, Imagination, Transformative Learning, Literacy Education
Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Race, Inequality and Language in Education in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2Social Studies Education in the Learning and Instruction Department at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
