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Direct linkRubén A. González; Brittany L. Jones – Reading Teacher, 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…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Minority Group Students, Freedom, Activism
Karis Jones; Scott Storm – Myers Education Press, 2024
"What is a fandom, and why do fandoms matter for school?" Fandoms are passionate communities dedicated to appreciating and engaging with texts of interest (movies, TV shows, books, bands, brands, sports teams, etc.) via personally and communally meaningful literacy practices. It is increasingly obvious that scripted literacy curricula…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Literacy Education, Popular Culture, Classroom Environment
Flores, Tracey T.; Vlach, Saba Khan; Lammert, Catherine – Journal of Literacy Research, 2019
This review of literacy education scholarship examines the ways that children's literature is used as a resource within literacy methods courses in the preparation of preservice teachers (PTs) as transformative intellectuals. The research indicates that the use of children's literature in literacy methods courses has served two distinct purposes:…
Descriptors: Role, Childrens Literature, Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods
Download full textBissonnette, Jeanne Dyches – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2016
Because few teacher education programs are truly rooted in the philosophical aims of multicultural and social justice education (Asher, 2007; Banks, 2008; Hayes & Juarez, 2012; Miller, 2014), many pre-service teachers (PSTs) remain unpracticed--and unable--to teach in culturally responsive ways (Sleeter, 2012). But what structures and forces…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Social Justice, Educational Philosophy, Multicultural Education
Albers, Peggy; Frederick, Tammy – TESOL Journal, 2013
This yearlong ethnographic study explored the work of two Latino teachers who identified themselves as critical literacy teachers and who taught ninth-grade Latino students whose scores on standardized reading tests fell in the bottom 20th percentile. Framed in critical pedagogy and multimodality, this study sought to answer the following…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Literacy Education, Social Justice, Transformative Learning
Wheeler, Tiffany R.; Trail, Amelia El-Hindi – AILACTE Journal, 2010
Today's teachers must be equipped to reach all children and embrace a pedagogy of equity. Toward that end, teacher preparation programs need to foster a transformationist pedagogy which allows students to develop into culturally responsive teachers. This paper describes three components of a teacher preparation program that embraces teaching for…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Social Justice, Teacher Education Programs, Cultural Pluralism
