Polic (y) ing time and curriculum: How teachers critically negotiate restrictive policies

C Wessel-Powell, BA Buchholz… - English Teaching: Practice …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to theorize teacher agency as enacted through a
P/policymaking lens in three elementary classrooms. Big-P Policies are formal, top-down …

Children's rhetoric in an era of (im) migration: Examining critical literacies using a cultural rhetorics orientation in the elementary classroom

CJ Brownell - Research in the Teaching of English, 2021 - publicationsncte.org
There is a particular urgency in this political moment to understand children's experiences
with current events. Drawing from data generated following the 2016 presidential election …

Sound the alarm!: Disrupting sonic resonances of an elementary English language arts classroom

CJ Brownell - Curriculum Inquiry, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Classrooms are host to complex sonic ecologies informed by ritualized patterns and
routines, but there remains a dearth of scholarship studying everyday sounds of schooling …

Building bridges instead of walls: Engaging young children in critical literacy read alouds

CJ Brownell, A Rashid - Journal of Curriculum Studies …, 2020 - curriculumstudies.org
Situated in the months after the 2016 United States presidential election, this qualitative
case study illuminates third-grade children's sense-making about the GOP Administration's …

Creative language play (giarism) in the elementary English language arts classroom

CJ Brownell - Language Arts, 2018 - publicationsncte.org
Creative Language Play(giarism) in the Elementary English Language Arts Classroom Page 1
page 218 Language Arts, Volume 95, Number 4, March 2018 Cassie J. Brownell Creative …

“Keep walls down instead of up”: Interrogating writing/making as a vehicle for Black girls' literacies

CJ Brownell - Education Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Drawing on data generated following the 2016 United States presidential election, in this
article the author considers how a classroom makerspace made Black girls' literacies visible …

Mandated curricula as figured world: A case-study of identity, power, and writing in elementary English language arts

CJ Brownell - English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose This qualitative study aims to use the conceptual lens of figured worlds to explore
how a 10-year-old child positions her identity and participates in systems of power through …

Writing as a minecrafter: Exploring how children blur worlds of play in the elementary english language arts classroom

CJ Brownell - Teachers College Record, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background/Context Educators have considered how Minecraft supports language and
literacy practices in the game and in the spaces and circumstances immediately surrounding …

Fostering identity negotiation in sixth-grade ELLS: Examining an instructional unit on identity in English Language Arts

CG Lopez, SI Musanti - NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study provides an in depth look at how middle school English language learners (ELLs)
negotiate their identity as readers and writers as they engage in an identity-oriented unit of …

Researching Identity in Language Teachers--Current Challenges and Implications.

JN Bacquet - International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021 - ERIC
Language teacher identity has been at the forefront of pedagogical research in recent years;
this has become particularly important due to the demographic changes seen throughout the …