There's a great deal of uncertainty, discord, and increased volatility across a number of critical institutions in our society. Each day on social media and TV news outlets we read, listen to, and/or watch events unfold that are linked to political, economic, health, legal, and educational inequities that can be traced to racist ideologies and practices. Public schools across the country are being subjected to pending state legislation and new laws that seek to limit how race-among other markers of identity-can be taught in K-12 classrooms.
This first volume of Special Issues: Racial Literacy gathers some of the most compelling and practical recent articles across NCTE journals, addressing the importance of racial literacy and its implications for curriculum, pedagogy, and policy. Editor Detra Price-Dennis has curated this collection to show how teaching from a racial literacy perspective is in conversation with antiracist, culturally responsive, equity-oriented frameworks that uplift curriculum design and instructional strategies. These articles can help educators (re)imagine the classroom as a space that supports the development of racial literacy skills and practices with their students.
There's a great deal of uncertainty, discord, and increased volatility across a number of critical institutions in our society. Each day on social media and TV news outlets we read, listen to, and/or watch events unfold that are linked to political, economic, health, legal, and educational inequities that can be traced to racist ideologies and practices. Public schools across the country are being subjected to pending state legislation and new laws that seek to limit how race-among other markers of identity-can be taught in K-12 classrooms.
This first volume of Special Issues: Racial Literacy gathers some of the most compelling and practical recent articles across NCTE journals, addressing the importance of racial literacy and its implications for curriculum, pedagogy, and policy. Editor Detra Price-Dennis has curated this collection to show how teaching from a racial literacy perspective is in conversation with antiracist, culturally responsive, equity-oriented frameworks that uplift curriculum design and instructional strategies. These articles can help educators (re)imagine the classroom as a space that supports the development of racial literacy skills and practices with their students.
Detra Price-Dennis is an associate professor of education in the
Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design Program,
codirector of the Reimagining Education Online Advanced Certificate
Program, and the founding director of #JustLit--a media-based
project that seeks to provide multimodal resources about
literature, media, and social change in education at Teachers
College, Columbia University. Her award-winning scholarship draws
on ethnographic and sociocultural lenses to examine the
intersections of critical literacy education, technology, and
equity-based curriculum development in K-8 classrooms.
Price-Dennis is the coauthor of Advancing Racial Literacies in
Teachers Education: Activism for Equity in the Digital Age, editor
of Racial Literacy: Implications for Curriculum, Pedagogy, and
Policy, Volume 1, and coeditor of Black Girls' Literacies:
Transforming Lives and Literacy Practices. Her research also
appears in academic journals, media outlets, and books.
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