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View article: Disrupting Niceness in Literacy Teacher Education: Non-Linear Trajectories Toward Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Disrupting Niceness in Literacy Teacher Education: Non-Linear Trajectories Toward Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Open
Many teacher educators seek to implement culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in their courses. However, enactment is often mediated by our socialization into whiteness and niceness. This study investigates how our self-study community of pr…
View article: Nice Girls like Us: Confronting White Liberalism in Teacher Education and Ourselves
Nice Girls like Us: Confronting White Liberalism in Teacher Education and Ourselves Open
Niceness includes behaviors such as avoiding conflict or controversial topics, being submissive and people-pleasing, performing teaching as “love” in uncritical ways, accepting deficit perspectives, and upholding patriarchal structures. In…
View article: Novice Teachers’ Knowledge of Racial Literacies
Novice Teachers’ Knowledge of Racial Literacies Open
Grounded in Goodwin and Darity's domains of knowledge for social justice educators, this study examines novice teachers' (NTs) racial literacies. Specifically, this research integrates a framework for teacher knowledge with the construct o…
View article: Disability Sustaining Pedagogy: Literacy Instruction Informed by the Knowledge and Lived Experiences of Teachers with Disabilities
Disability Sustaining Pedagogy: Literacy Instruction Informed by the Knowledge and Lived Experiences of Teachers with Disabilities Open
Centering the narratives of teachers with disabilities, this piece offers Disability Sustaining Pedagogy as a stance and practice for honoring disability identities in literacy classrooms.
View article: Committing to Anti-Bias Anti-Racist Teaching: From Activity to Habits of Mind
Committing to Anti-Bias Anti-Racist Teaching: From Activity to Habits of Mind Open
With the need to prepare teacher candidates to work with an increasingly diverse student body in U.S. schools, a multi-institutional collaborative self-study group was formed to examine ways in which teacher educators could expand beyond p…
View article: When “Nice” Isn’t: Confronting Niceness and Whiteness to Center Equity in Teacher Education
When “Nice” Isn’t: Confronting Niceness and Whiteness to Center Equity in Teacher Education Open
Niceness is a socialized disposition, particularly amongst white women, that prioritizes comfort and neutrality while preventing resistance against oppressive systems. Given the demographics of teachers and teacher educators, niceness and …
View article: Counternarratives of Resistance in Preservice Teacher Education
Counternarratives of Resistance in Preservice Teacher Education Open
Now more than ever, injustice against African Americans is being publicized at an alarming rate. The accessibility of mobile phones has made it possible for prejudice against blacks to be brought to global attention. This has propelled the…
View article: Inquiry-Based Teacher Writing Groups as Sites for Professional Learning and Restorying Identities
Inquiry-Based Teacher Writing Groups as Sites for Professional Learning and Restorying Identities Open
In this article, we use narrative inquiry to examine one teacher’s experiences of participating in an inquiry-based teacher writing group. Narrative inquiry centers teachers’ stories, revealing the complexities of teaching and writing iden…
View article: Collaborative Inquiry to Support Critically Reading Children’s Literature
Collaborative Inquiry to Support Critically Reading Children’s Literature Open
This article provides an overview of a qualitative study investigating how K-5 classroom teachers describe their beliefs, concerns, and planning process for enacting read alouds featuring characters with disabilities. The study explored ed…
View article: (Be)coming Critical Teacher Educators: Collaborative Self-Study across Contexts
(Be)coming Critical Teacher Educators: Collaborative Self-Study across Contexts Open
This collaborative self-study looks at how eight white literacy teacher educators worked together to re-center critical literacy and teaching for equity in methods courses. We used self-study methodology to interrogate not only our pedagog…
View article: Embedding Diverse Children's Literature Throughout a Teacher Preparation Program
Embedding Diverse Children's Literature Throughout a Teacher Preparation Program Open
This chapter explores the incorporation of diverse children's literature into a teacher preparation program, both in and beyond a required Literature for Children course. With the aim of cultivating positive reading identities for pre-serv…
View article: Analyzing Representations of Individuals with Disabilities in Picture Books
Analyzing Representations of Individuals with Disabilities in Picture Books Open
This article provides a critical literacy approach to reading picture books that represent individuals with disabilities. It details close reading with a critical literacy stance as a scaffolded method for teachers to support students’ inc…
View article: Balancing Literacies
Balancing Literacies Open
This chapter outlines an approach to whole learner education in an elementary school literacy classroom by building upon the work of scholars in Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP). It begins by i…
View article: Teachers as Writers: A Case Study of a Teacher Writing Group
Teachers as Writers: A Case Study of a Teacher Writing Group Open
Writing instruction has been neglected, both in teacher preparation courses and in professional development in literacy. Yet, the adoption of new standards and teacher evaluation systems by many states demands increased writing instruction…