Affirming Black Students' Lives and Literacies

Bearing Witness

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvArlette Ingram Willis,Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon,Patriann Smith

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Drawing on the authors’ experiences as Black parents, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators, this timely book presents a multipronged approach to affirming Black lives and literacies. The authors believe change is needed—not within Black children—but in the way they are perceived and educated, particularly in reading, writing, and critical thinking across grade levels. To inform literacy teachers and school leaders, the authors provide a conceptual framework for reimagining literacy instruction based on Black philosophical and theoretical foundations, historical background, literacy research, and authentic experiences of Black students. This important book includes counternarratives about the lives of Black learners, research conducted by Black scholars among Black students, examples of approaches to literacy with Black children that are making a difference, conversations among literacy researchers that move beyond academia; and a model for engaging all students in literacy. Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies advocates for adopting a standard of care that will improve and support literacy achievement among today’s Black students by rejecting deficit presumptions and embracing the fullness of these students’ strengths.Book Features:A counternarrative of Black literacy history, lives, and learners. Narrative examples of Black literacy scholarship, by Black scholars who embrace their faith-walk as an integral part of their holistic approach to literacy teaching and learning.Discussion questions to spur conversations among school administrators, parents/caregivers, politicians, reading researchers, teacher educators, and classroom teachers. An array of extant Black scholarship that should inform literacy praxis and research. A conceptual framework, CARE, that is applicable for all learners with a focus on Black literacy learners.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-04
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt432 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagTeachers' College Press
MedarbetareTheresa Perry
ISBN9780807766996

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Arlette Ingram Willis is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, division of Language and Literacy. Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon is professor of literacy and chair of the Department of Reading & Language Arts at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Patriann Smith is a professor of literacy studies at the University of South Florida.

ContentsForeword Theresa Perry ixPreface xiAcknowledgments xxi1. Introduction: Theoretical Perspectives 1Black Epistemology, Ideology, and Theory 2Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations 2Conceptual Foundations: Moral Courage and Moral Licensing 4Theoretical Foundations: Black Liberation Theology, Black Radical Tradition, Critical Race Theory, and Decolonization 7Black Liberation Theology 8Black Feminism 10The Black Radical Tradition 12Critical Race Theory 13Decolonial Theories 15Reading Research and Black Students 162. Black Women Activist Teachers 19Literacy and Freedom 21Literacy and Civil Rights 35Literacy and Liberation 40Literacy and Justice: Black Independent Schools 45Our Teachers 50Conclusion 503. The Mis-Education of a High-Performing Black Girl 53Shawyn's Narrative: A Summary 53The Study 55Aesha 56Discussion 64Conclusion 67In Conversation 68Critical Discussion Questions 72Suggested Readings 734. Cultural Dissonance in a First-Grade Classroom 75Gwen's Narrative: A Summary 75Setting 76Tony 77Travis 80A Closer Look Inside Ms. Rudolph's First-Grade Classroom 83Conclusion 92In Conversation 93Critical Discussion Questions 99Suggested Readings 1005. Transcending (Dis)Belief: Black (Immigrant) Youth Literacies 101Patriann's Narrative: A Summary 101An Invitation From a Black Immigrant Educator 102Black Immigrant Educator Literacies 105Jorge: A Black Immigrant Latinx Youth 107Black American Youth Literacies 110Excerpts From Black American Youth 112Conclusion 118In Conversation 119Critical Discussion Questions 122Suggested Readings 1236. It's Never Too Late 125Arlette's Narrative: A Summary 126It Is Never Too Late . . . 126A Brief Backstory 127Meeting Clemente 129Twenty Years Later 132Perspective 134Conclusion 135In Conversation 136Critical Discussion Questions 139Suggested Readings 1407. Conceptual Framework: Toward a Standard of CARE 141Foundations 141Race and Culture 143Equity Pedagogies 146CARE 148References 159Index 175About the Authors 183