{"title":"Albert J. Kingston Distinguished Service Award: Janice F. Almasi","authors":"Paola Pilonieta","doi":"10.1177/23813377221120610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221120610","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"2 1","pages":"34 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89660306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MyStory, YourStory, OurStory: Literacy Development in the Black Church Past, Present, & Future","authors":"Gwendolyn Michele Thompson McMillon","doi":"10.1177/23813377221109538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221109538","url":null,"abstract":"The Black Church is the oldest anti-racist institution in America. Having educated generations of Black families, birthed schools, universities, hospitals, financial institutions, various music genres, and nurtured numerous advocates and martyrs for freedom, including access to literacy, it is directly responsible for many of the most significant gains in racial equity in American history. Yet, the Black Church has largely been ignored in conversations concerning the best way to educate Black students in America's schools. A question for the 21st century is: What can educators, particularly literacy researchers, learn from the Black Church? The Black Church is an extremely underutilized resource from which educators could learn best practices in literacy education to potentially reduce educational inequities with persistence. What are some of these best practices? How and why are they implemented in the learning environment of the Black Church? When simultaneously discussing the historical development of the Black Church and the literacy development of African Americans, it becomes apparent that they portray a mutually reinforcing relationship. This growth, based on a foundation of Black Liberation Theology and a continuous need to fight racism, developed from the initial need for a unified response to the slavemasters’ efforts to justify slavery with a perverted interpretation of the Christian Bible. This detailed discussion of the Black Church's origins, historical development, and contemporary practices will highlight the complex connections between religion, literacy, language, relationships, and politics, and inform scholarship of the Black Church's role as the established expert in the education of Black people.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"22 1","pages":"40 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90267072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elena Forzani, Peter Afflerbach, Sarah H. Aguirre, Nancy Brynelson, Gina N. Cervetti, Byeong-Young Cho, Julie Coiro, Georgia Earnest García, Cynthia Greenleaf, J. Guthrie, Bonnie Hain, K. Hinchman, Mira L. Katz, Carol D. Lee, Mariana Pacheco, P. David Pearson, Alicia Ross, A. Skerrett, P. Uccelli
{"title":"Advances and Missed Opportunities in the Development of the 2026 NAEP Reading Framework","authors":"Elena Forzani, Peter Afflerbach, Sarah H. Aguirre, Nancy Brynelson, Gina N. Cervetti, Byeong-Young Cho, Julie Coiro, Georgia Earnest García, Cynthia Greenleaf, J. Guthrie, Bonnie Hain, K. Hinchman, Mira L. Katz, Carol D. Lee, Mariana Pacheco, P. David Pearson, Alicia Ross, A. Skerrett, P. Uccelli","doi":"10.1177/23813377221112388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221112388","url":null,"abstract":"The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Reading aims to measure reading comprehension for students in the United States and to monitor progress in our education system. NAEP Reading is developed based on an assessment framework document that is periodically revised to reflect the latest understandings about reading comprehension and its assessment. A key goal of the Visioning Panel (VP) and the Development Panel (DP) charged with updating the NAEP Reading Assessment Framework for 2026 was to lay the foundation for an assessment that made progress toward greater fairness, equity, and validity. In this essay, we discuss how the Framework development process unfolded and its results. We document the unusual ways the National Assessment Governing Board (“the Board”) shaped the development process. We provide evidence that a small group of Board members aimed to preserve the status quo in reading assessment by downplaying reliance on expertise and authoritative sources of research on reading, learning, and assessment and by removing attention to equity in NAEP Reading. We also discuss both successful (i.e., approved by the Board) and unsuccessful (i.e., rejected by the Board) recommendations for changes to the 2026 Framework that initially were proposed by the DP. We end by considering how, despite the efforts of the small group of Board members, we as a literacy field can improve the nature and impact of our large-scale reading assessments, and NAEP in particular.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"23 1","pages":"153 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77454155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Coleman, Ryan Schey, Mollie V. Blackburn, C. Brochin, Gemma Cooper-Novack, S. Crawley, Cindy Cruz, Elizabeth Dutro, Jack Helton, Abdul-Qadir Islam, I. Jiménez, J. Lizárraga, Addie Shrodes, Rob Simon, Corrine Wickens, Craig A. Young
{"title":"Intergenerational Queer Method(ologie)s: Dialogues in Literacy Research","authors":"J. Coleman, Ryan Schey, Mollie V. Blackburn, C. Brochin, Gemma Cooper-Novack, S. Crawley, Cindy Cruz, Elizabeth Dutro, Jack Helton, Abdul-Qadir Islam, I. Jiménez, J. Lizárraga, Addie Shrodes, Rob Simon, Corrine Wickens, Craig A. Young","doi":"10.1177/23813377221117165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221117165","url":null,"abstract":"Comprised of seven intergenerational dialogues, this article brings together emerging and established scholars to query into the future of queer literacy research. Addressing generational shifts in queer method(ologie)s, these dialogues advance epistemological, ontological, and ethical research quandaries related to queer and trans studies today. Holding implications for literacy research broadly, this article presents queer futurity as a research approach for addressing some of our field's most pressing concerns.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"26 1","pages":"249 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73756297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“yeet nitro boosted”: A Postdigital Perspective on Young People’s Literacy Engagements With the Discord Platform","authors":"B. Robinson","doi":"10.1177/23813377221115738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221115738","url":null,"abstract":"While the influence of digital technologies on literacy expression has long been a central concern of literacy studies, the proliferation of digital platforms across contemporary life has prompted increased scholarly attention to their influence on literacy. How, this scholarship asks, do platforms’ interfaces, algorithms, and business models produce particular formations of literacy, and what do those formations mean for ethical and equitable literacies learning and living? To reckon with these questions, this article brings a postdigital literacies perspective to data collected at the Giga-Games Camp, a video game design summer camp, where young people interacted with each other using Discord, a social media platform. The author describes how the Giga-Gamers and the Discord platform engaged in the mutually articulated platform practice of economics and argues that attention to such platform practices can help educators and researchers respond to the economic forces (re)shaping literacy in the platform society.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"1 1","pages":"359 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88659977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Arya, Sabiha Sultana, Somer Levine, Daniel Katz, John Galisky, Honeiah Karimi
{"title":"Raising Critical Readers in the 21st Century: A Case of Assessing Fourth-Grade Reading Abilities and Practices","authors":"D. Arya, Sabiha Sultana, Somer Levine, Daniel Katz, John Galisky, Honeiah Karimi","doi":"10.1177/23813377221117100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221117100","url":null,"abstract":"Grounded in the sociocultural nature of literacies and informed of the inherent biases in widely used, English-dominant reading assessments in U.S. schools, this case study traces the planning, development, and pilot administration (n = 52) of a culturally inclusive (i.e., participant informed), online reading assessment. The Critical Reading Assessment (CRA) is designed to gauge elementary students’ comprehension and critical reasoning (i.e., identifying potential biases or instances of diversity, equity and inclusion) of digital, multimodal texts. Findings from our analysis of recorded pilot sessions with student participants, who are predominantly Spanish/English multilingual learners, suggest (a) the importance of transparency and feedback from multiple stakeholders in the assessment development process; (b) the potential affordance of multiple textual modalities for clarifying comprehension skills and abilities; (c) the potential negative consequences of using established, dominant-English reading tests for determining comprehension abilities; and (d) the need for greater opportunities to practice critical discussions (i.e., questions about perspectives, representation, and other potential biases) about texts. Implications from this study highlight the need for supporting elementary students and their teachers in dialogic, critical reading practices of multimodal textual information.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"2 1","pages":"418 - 436"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81646645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I Can Go Slapsticks”: Humor as Humanizing Pedagogy for Science Instruction With Multilingual Adolescent Immigrant Learners","authors":"Kongji Qin, Faythe P Beauchemin","doi":"10.1177/23813377221114766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221114766","url":null,"abstract":"Research shows that humor can play an important role in students’ language learning and literacy development. However, studies on how teachers intentionally enact humor as a pedagogical tool are still limited. This classroom discourse study examines the interactional construction and pedagogical functions of humor in one U.S. multilingual high school science classroom. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of languaging and affect, we took a discourse analytic approach to analyze classroom interactions and interview data to examine how the teacher used humor as humanizing pedagogy. We illustrate that the teacher held a humanizing teaching approach to working with immigrant students and viewed “slapstick humor” as part of his humanizing pedagogy. He co-constructed humor with his multilingual students in classroom interaction, and his pedagogical humor worked towards simultaneously humanizing learning, teaching scientific content, and building authentic caring relationships with students through care and empathy. We conclude the article with a discussion of the implications of this study for the research and practice of using humor in language and literacy classrooms with immigrant multilingual students.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"2008 1","pages":"304 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88202845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Literacy in Practice: How Educators Leverage Supports and Overcome Challenges to Enact Critical Literacy Pedagogy in Their Classrooms","authors":"Olivia A. Williams","doi":"10.1177/23813377221115190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221115190","url":null,"abstract":"This is a multiple case study exploring five high school English teachers’ perceived supports and challenges to enacting critical literacy pedagogy, and their experiences navigating the challenges. Through a structure/culture/agency framework, I sought to understand how these five teachers’ leveraging of supports and sense of agency in the face of challenges impacted the critical literacy choices they made in their classrooms. In order to understand how participants’ pedagogical challenges, supports, and agency all intersected to impact their critical literacy teaching, I used critical narrative analysis to explore the presence and/or absence of grammatical and framing agency in their narratives. The analysis found that participants mostly experienced challenges at the local (school) and institution level contexts, and navigated these challenges differently depending on the level of agency they saw themselves having in their schools.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"4 1","pages":"323 - 340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80809568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifting Epistemologies Amidst Whitestream Norms: Centering Black Language in an Elementary Literacy Methods Course","authors":"Alice Y. Lee","doi":"10.1177/23813377221112977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221112977","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues for a Black epistemological literacy education by centering Black equity in the process of teaching literacy methods. I offer a pedagogical model that stems from my own experiences disrupting required elementary literacy methods courses. My approach utilizes Black Language to illustrate the linguistic, sociocultural, and cognitive dimensions of literacy, and therein draws awareness for how white monolingual norms are thoroughly normalized in literacy instruction. While the linguistic legitimacy of Black Language, particularly its phonological systems, have been well established, in our current state, phonics instruction belongs to White Mainstream English. I contend that any cognitive literacy instruction for Black Language speakers must leverage the tacit knowledge of their own language. Pre-service teachers must receive explicit instruction on understanding societal hierarchies, especially as anti-Blackness and white supremacist views of Black Language are intertwined. A Black epistemological literacy education is necessary in modeling for pre-service teachers how literacy curricula must move beyond tokens of diversity.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"4 1","pages":"268 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78752327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ericka Staufert-Reyes, C. Wan, Ankhi G. Thakurta, Jackie Winsch, Zion Sykes, Quinn Luong, M. Ghiso
{"title":"Cultivating Virtual Communities of Care: Reflections on Community-Based Research in Times of Sociopolitical Precarity","authors":"Ericka Staufert-Reyes, C. Wan, Ankhi G. Thakurta, Jackie Winsch, Zion Sykes, Quinn Luong, M. Ghiso","doi":"10.1177/23813377221114479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221114479","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we examine the nature and impact of coalitional work within a research–practice partnership (RPP) between university-based researchers, families, and youth as we navigated shared investigations into educational equity within a digital mediated space. We conceptualize our community and collaboration using Montoya’s metaphor of trenzas to highlight our understanding of our interwoven identities, spaces (both digital and physical), and literacies in service of educational change. Amid global and local precarities, we found that members of the partnership leveraged what we refer to as their digital coalitional literacies to repurpose the virtual space. Drawing from participatory research and practitioner research methodological tenets, our findings show how research partners engaged in digital coalitional literacies as they (a) collaboratively mobilized their literacies and their cultural and experiential resources to repurpose digital platforms; (b) worked in solidarity to cultivate communities of care across boundaries; and (c) created art that evoked critical thinking on critical issues for advocacy and change. Lastly, this article provides implications for RPP and classrooms.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"1 1","pages":"437 - 459"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84010101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}