Special Issues, Volume 2: Racial Literacy
Published on 28. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
114 pages
978-0-8141-4500-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume questions what constitutes literacy in a society organized by race as an inquiry, to deepen the significance for why K-20 learners must develop knowledges that support their abilities to process and ultimately transform racism. With this collection of original essays, editor Ayanna F. Brown helps to push the field of racial literacy into new directions, to avoid niceties and other pitfalls, to get to the heart of racial understanding, to better respond to the needs of our students and society. This volume brings forth emerging scholars who seek to respond to the sociopolitical and sociohistorical aspects of racial literacy as it relates to youth. The scholarship grapples with how educators at every level think through racial literacy in their work and within their experiences. Each contribution adds depth to the question of agency and illuminates why racial literacy work extends social justice efforts to become a call for a culture of teaching and learning that recenters liberation as an active pursuit.--Ayanna F. Brown
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 274 mm
Width: 206 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8141-4500-5 (9780814145005)
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DR. AYANNA F. BROWN earned her BS from Tuskegee University in secondary education language arts, her MEd in curriculum and instructional leadership, and her PhD from Vanderbilt University in interdisciplinary studies: language, literacy, and sociology. Her career in education spans both public and private education, including teaching middle- level English language arts and leading college- readiness planning for urban youth with a consortium between Vanderbilt University and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. She is an associate professor of education and cultural studies and coordinator for the Middle- Level English Language Arts major at Elmhurst University. Brown is also the author of several peer- reviewed journal articles, several book chapters, and is the coeditor of Critical Consciousness in Curricular Research: Evidence from the Field and has presented her research nationally and internationally. She is co-principal investigator for two National Science Foundation grants, RESULT and PRIDE, which work to increase BIPoC and linguistically diverse STEM majors to become teachers using literacies through culturally relevant and sustaining STEM practices.