{"title":"Between Hip Hop and Me: Podcast Process Texts as Tools of Cultural Brokerage for Community Cultural Wealth","authors":"Jason J. Griffith, Anthony S. Celaya, J. Sweet","doi":"10.1177/23813377221114283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221114283","url":null,"abstract":"This research features a discourse analysis of two podcasts: the “Mobb Deep, Shook Ones, Pt. II” episode of Song Exploder and the “Rap on Trial” episode of Hidden Brain. We selected these podcasts through an abductive method of what we call “fortuitous listening” because of how they reveal community cultural wealth (CCW) through their descriptions of the creative process. Specifically, our study addressed two questions: (1) What does an examination of two Hip Hop podcast process texts reveal about CCW? (2) How could a discussion of the CCW that is revealed through descriptions of creative process inform literacy practices? Findings demonstrate how linguistic, familial, navigational, and aspirational capital exhibited in first-person descriptions of rap composition helped to showcase Hip Hop texts as what Bettina Love calls a “complex personhood” well-beyond simplified or stereotypical critiques. Because of how these process texts demonstrate the ways that Hip Hop feature Alim's ill-literacies criteria of being based on intimate, lived, and liberatory experiences, we posit them to be effective tools of cultural brokerage, particularly for educators wishing to enact Hip Hop-Based Education.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"16 1","pages":"377 - 397"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87735530","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}
Amanda R. Diaz, Kristine M. Schutz, Rebecca Woodard
{"title":"“Sometimes You're Going to Be Uncomfortable”: Pre-service Elementary Teachers’ Generative Orientations Toward Facilitating Critical Conversations Around Texts","authors":"Amanda R. Diaz, Kristine M. Schutz, Rebecca Woodard","doi":"10.1177/23813377221113293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221113293","url":null,"abstract":"Grounded in our commitment to support preservice teachers (PSTs) in an urban elementary teacher education program to develop anti-bias pedagogies, we engaged in a design-based study aimed at enacting critical conversations about texts that foster dialogue about power and privilege. In this analysis, we explore how PSTs engaged with children during discretionary moments within critical conversations in their field placements. We asked: What generative orientations are visible in PSTs’ analysis of and reflection on their facilitation of critical conversations with children? Findings reveal that PSTs who extended dialogue during these moments in critical conversations—rather than avoiding or ignoring children’s contributions—displayed an orientation toward seeing children as sensemakers; flexibly responded to encourage dialogue; and recognized the value of feeling uncomfortable.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"21 1","pages":"286 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89427449","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}
N. Radaković, W. O’Byrne, Melissa Negreiros, Tracey Hunter-Doniger, E. Pears, Cymone Littlejohn
{"title":"Toward Transdisciplinarity: Constructing Meaning Where Disciplines Intersect, Combine, and Shift","authors":"N. Radaković, W. O’Byrne, Melissa Negreiros, Tracey Hunter-Doniger, E. Pears, Cymone Littlejohn","doi":"10.1177/23813377221113515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221113515","url":null,"abstract":"Although literacy research has traditionally focused on content area and disciplinary literacies, in this study we argue for the importance of transdisciplinarity. We employed a participatory action research design to examine pre-service teachers’ (PST) planning of a transdisciplinary math and music lesson to understand how conceptual framing of pedagogy and instructional practice can be shifted from content literacies to transdisciplinarity. Our area of inquiry focused on how PSTs’ understanding of transdisciplinarity shifted as they planned, taught, and reflected on instruction and how these shifts were supported by others. We documented evidence of how the lesson progressed from disciplinary thinking to interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary thinking throughout the planning process. We also documented how the process of planning, teaching, coaching, and reflecting provided PSTs with an opportunity to better understand the connections between transdisciplinarity and pedagogy.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"169 1","pages":"398 - 417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86218094","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":"Social Functions of Students’ Translingual Composing in an English-Medium, Second-Grade Classroom","authors":"Lindsey W. Rowe","doi":"10.1177/23813377221109540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221109540","url":null,"abstract":"While translingual and translanguaging orientations have been posited as supportive for emergent bilingual children in schools, limited research explores how children in English-medium spaces enact translingual composing practices. Drawing on theorizations of translingual composing as an interactional process, this paper analyzes data from a year-long, qualitative study. It explores how children in a second-grade classroom in an English-medium school composed when invited to use multiple language resources during Writing Workshop. Specially, it examines two questions: (1) What translingual composing practices did children employ? and (2) How did children's use of translingual composing function socially? Descriptive analyses of students’ writing show that, across the year, children created increasingly sophisticated translingual texts. Inductive analyses of events involving these texts identified six social functions that children interactionally constructed for their translingual writing: (1) responding to the teacher, (2) addressing bilingual audiences, (3) gaining peers’ attention, (4) teaching others a language beyond English, (5) positioning oneself as a language learner, and (6) positioning oneself as bilingual. These patterns illustrate the composing-oriented, peer-oriented, and identity-oriented work children enacted, in-the-moment, through their talk about translingual texts. Translingual texts became the occasion for new sorts of interactions that opened space for students to negotiate ideologies and positionings that valued the use of multiple named languages in the classroom writing space.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"283 1","pages":"211 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80207652","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}
Allison Zengilowski, B. Nash, Brendan A. Schuetze, D. Schallert
{"title":"Bringing Refutation Texts Back to Their Literacy Roots: What do Critical Literacy and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Have to Teach us About Students’ Conceptual Change?","authors":"Allison Zengilowski, B. Nash, Brendan A. Schuetze, D. Schallert","doi":"10.1177/23813377221109544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221109544","url":null,"abstract":"Refutation texts are resurfacing as a suggested antidote to misconceptions and “fake news.” In a previous critical review of the refutation text literature, we, the author team, suggested further interrogation of the assumptions these texts imply: that learners share the same common misunderstanding about a topic, and that there is one “truth” that should replace the misconception. Building from Hynd’s feminist critique of refutation texts, we present in this essay a consideration of how these authoritative and prescriptive texts fit into an educational landscape being transformed by foci on students’ autonomy and funds of knowledge. In this position paper, we present the argument that refutation texts and their associated research may conflict with critical literacy perspectives and culturally responsive pedagogies. We examine these three perspectives for how they may view learning and literacy, and conclude the essay by proffering suggestions for future research on refutation text manipulations and for considering how refutational texts might be incorporated in classroom settings that enact culturally responsive pedagogy and critical literacy perspectives.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"51 1","pages":"341 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79079100","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":"A Sensational View of Human Learning, Thinking, and Language","authors":"J. Gee, Qingpeng Zhang","doi":"10.1177/23813377221100163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221100163","url":null,"abstract":"Educational research regularly claims, with lots of evidence, that humans learn from experience. However, experience is composed of outer and inner sensations. Thus, if humans learn from experience, we would expect that educational research would be replete with work on sensation. Yet sensation in the wild, outside laboratory studies, plays no real role in educational research on teaching and learning. This paper is based on current research, in several different disciplines, that sensation and feeling activate, guide, and assess cognition and that much of human thinking and problem-solving is based on associations formed from experience that are triggered quickly and unconsciously. We explore the nature of living things, learning and thinking without consciousness, the distinctive nature of the human brain and body, and the role of the physical and social body in cognition. The paper discusses some of the implications of a sensation-based view of human thinking and acting for how we study learning, language, and social identity.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"903 1","pages":"233 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77489870","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":"Cultivating a Dream as a Child Growing Up in the Deep South: Keeping the Dream Alive for Today’s Children","authors":"P. Edwards","doi":"10.1177/23813377221094561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221094561","url":null,"abstract":"The 2021 Oscar Causey Award Address presented at the Literacy Research Association by Professor Dr. Patricia A. Edwards is a response to two self-reflexive questions: “How were my dreams cultivated as a little Black girl growing up in Albany, Georgia during the mid-fifties. sixties, and early seventies?” and “What implications does my story have for cultivating the dreams of today's children?” To explore these questions, Edwards uses a qualitative methodology termed portraiture ( Lawrence-Lightfoot & Davis, 1997) to capture her insights and experiences, allowing her to “paint” rich pictures of the participants “in an effort to capture the complexity, dynamics, and subtlety of human experience and organizational life” (p. xv). Through portraiture, which relies heavily on the use of storytelling and narration, Edwards converts the term “research” into “I-search” ( Macrorie, 1988), affording her the opportunity to reflect on her lived experiences and share those moments and events with the world while also abolishing the “gaze” that some forms of quantitative and qualitative methodologies employ. In turn, she leverages narratives—via pictures, portraits, and audio—of her life as a Black girl growing up in Albany, Georgia, to construct meaning of her experiences and of her life. In doing so, Edwards highlights the impact of The Albany Civil Rights Movement in cultivating her dream. She invites teachers, school districts, literacy leaders, and the broader community to use her narrative portrait as a basis for creating a new norm that cultivates the dreams of young Black students, and of students of color in general.","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"73 1","pages":"190 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86091074","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":"Preface: Meeting the Ethical Demands of the Present","authors":"K. Spector, J. Chisholm, K. Whitmore","doi":"10.1177/23813377211040387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377211040387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"52 1","pages":"9 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75767725","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":"Albert J. Kingston Distinguished Service Award: Rachel Karchmer-Klein","authors":"Paola Pilonieta","doi":"10.1177/23813377211032025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377211032025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"47 1","pages":"32 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73753003","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":"Summary of the 70th Annual Conference of the Literacy Research Association, November 30 – December 5, 2020","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/23813377211039895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377211039895","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91923,"journal":{"name":"Literacy research : theory, method, and practice","volume":"2 1","pages":"14 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88446014","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}