Guns, schools, and democracy: Adolescents imagining social futures through speculative civic literacies

N Mirra, A Garcia - American Educational Research Journal, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article analyzes how guns emerged as both urgent topics of dialogue and common
features of everyday life for 228 students and their teachers in six communities across the …

Written argumentation research in English and science: a scoping review

C Morris, J Deehan, A MacDonald - Cogent Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Scientific literacy requires students to generalise their scientific understanding to contexts
beyond the classroom and engage in effective communication. An interdisciplinary …

Developing youth toward pluralistic environmental citizenship: a Taiwanese place-based curriculum case study

YW Chan - Environmental Education Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Environmental and sustainability education cannot disconnect itself from politics. In order to
achieve sustainable societies, we need approaches that educate students capable of coping …

Disciplinary reading, action, and social change

GN Cervetti, PD Pearson - The Reading Teacher, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In their Four Resources Model, Freebody and Luke (1990) described four roles that
readers take as they engage with texts: the code breaker, meaning maker, text user/analyst …

“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 …

“'You cannot come to this country'—that's what the government says sometimes, when you're Brown”: African American children's critical literacies and emergent …

WF Johnson - Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Decades of research demonstrate that young children make meaning about race and
racism. Yet there remains a dearth of scholarship about whether and how African American …

Writing rights to right wrongs: A critical analysis of young children composing nationalist narratives as part of the larger body politic

CJ Brownell - AERA Open, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Many researchers have considered recent and intergenerational immigrant children's
perspectives on immigration policies. Fewer have investigated nonimmigrant children's …

What Do So‐Called Critical Race Theory Bans Mean for Elementary Literacy Instruction?

LB Kelly, L Taylor - Reading Research Quarterly, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, a number of states in the United States have enacted educational policies,
often referred to as “critical race theory” bans, that aim to restrict teaching about race and …

'COVID taught me…': Examining child‐radio productions in the COVID‐19 pandemic

CJ Brownell - Children & Society, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Framed by critical literacies, the author adapted ethnographic methods to virtual spaces to
examine radio as an alternative way to enhance adult understanding of children's COVID …

Inventing expert in English language arts: A case study of critical literacies in a third grade classroom

CJ Brownell - Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing from data generated during the 2016-2017 academic year, this study centred on
US children's design of two critical literacies compositions—a letter to Congress and a …