Where Is the Justice?

Valerie Kinloch is the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education and president of the National Council of Teachers of English (2021–2022). Her books include Race, Justice, and Activism in Literacy Instruction. Emily A. Nemeth is an associate professor in the Department of Education at Denison University. Tamara T. Butler is executive director of Avery Research Center, College of Charleston. Grace D. Player is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Connecticut.

• ContentsSeries Foreword xiAcknowledgments xv“For Justice”: Our Found Poem #11. Schools for What and for Whom? A Focus on Engaged Pedagogies 1Engaged Pedagogy, Resistance, and Not Reform 3Trouble Behind and Ahead . . . Reform 8Pursuing Transformations 10Learning and Change 15Where Is the Justice? Overview 15Consider the Following 19“On Not Waiting”: Our Found Poem #22. Bringing Learning to Life! Engaged Pedagogies in Practice 23Coming Together: A BLTL Session at Connected 25Bringing Learning to . . . What? A Brief Overview 28Situating the Course in a Larger Context 32You Did What? An Overview of BLTL Projects 35BLTL Educator Pam Reed and a Focus on Positionality 37Engaged Pedagogies in Practice 39What If? 40Appendix 2.A: Examples of Other Course Texts and Readings 41Appendix 2.B: Examples of BLTL Critical Service-Learning andEngagement Projects 42“Waiting for . . .?”: Our Found Poem #33. With a Revolutionary Mind: Literacies, Communities, and Engaged Pedagogies 49A Brief Vignette 51Hyphenating Literacies 53Empathetic Leadership 60Consider These: Reflective Prompts 65Restoration 70“Change, Changes, Changing”: Our Found Poem #44. “Because I Am You”: Engaged Pedagogies and Critical Youth Organizing Literacies 75Time Travel 79Imagination and the Impossible: Youth Futures 80Establishing Context: Justice High School and BLTL 83Reflections From the Wake: BLTL and the WorldHumanities Class 84Engaging Activist Rhetorics: Cyberbullying andNeighborhood Pride 88Ruptured Landscapes, Engaged Learning 91“Being Radical”: Our Found Poem #55. Where Is the Justice? Reconfiguring Time and Space for Engaged Pedagogies 95Upheaval and Moments of Clarity 96How Might These Things Look? 100Civil Rights’ Educators 100Learningscapes: Setting the Stage 102What About Time? 104Reconfiguring Space as Place-Making 111Expanded Learningscapes 115The Paradoxes of Engaged Pedagogies 117Improvisation Artists, Masterful Weavers 120“Really Not Waiting”: Our Found Poem #66. Irradicable Impacts: Engaged Pedagogies as Invitations to Equitable Learningscapes 123Répondez S’il Vous Plaît: An Invitation 124Scene I: Sisters’ Organic Learningscapes 126Scene II: Engaging Fraternal Proximities 128Scene III: Engagement as Retention 131Scene IV: Really . . . A Power Drill? 133Scene V: An Invitation to Reclaim Our Futures 136“Moving, Even in Stillness”: Our Found Poem #77. Waiting for What? 141This Is Not an Ending 144“Waiting for What?” An Offering Found in Poetry (#8)Notes 153References 157Index 167About the Authors 173