... (Brownell and Rashid, 2020 ; Frieson and Scalise, 2021 ; Martínez, 2018 ; Stille and Prasad, 2015). Countertexts Social justice Criticality Teaching literature Children’s literature Reflective practice Yet realizing this vision is challenging. K-12 teachers serve as curricular gatekeepers...

.... Corresponding author Rebecca Woodard rwoodard@uic.edu 17 04 2025 28 07 2025 31 08 2025 10 09 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Sustainability Elementary education Social justice Environmental Urban...

... (Hale, 2019) to plan and implement mathematics lessons integrating literacy practices and social justice standards. Design/methodology/approach As part of this assignment, teacher candidates engaged in activities to inform their selection of the picturebook, planned and implemented their lessons...

... support new teachers through the “two-worlds pitfall” ( Feiman-Nemser and Buchmann, 1985 ) and revise teacher preparation to support social justice teaching. Design/methodology/approach Through qualitative inquiry, the authors analyze transcripts from monthly Zoom meetings in which 11 practicing...

... of online activism by a youth of Color, and social media literacies used to demonstrate civic engagement around contemporary social justice issues. Design/methodology/approach Through case study methods, the author examined how a youth of Color used social media to employ critical literacy practices...

... be contacted at: l.mcknight@deakin.edu.au 11 08 2023 19 12 2023 20 12 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Pedagogy Metaphor Discourse analysis Curriculum Social justice Feminism Artificial intelligence...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Identity Social justice Multiliteracies Youth participatory action research College readiness Immigrant youth A question that Grace Boggs, a Chinese American philosopher and Detroit-based community activist, famously posed has taken up quite a bit...

... in a large Northeastern city. The overarching question of this study asks, how do white English teachers cultivate students’ critical literacies regarding race and social justice through classroom literature? Additional questions that guided this study are: How do students in these classes learn about...

... widely available in US secondary schools (Kosciw et al., 2020). Identity Social justice English language arts Curriculum English Gender and sexuality During my year at Harrison, I attended school daily as a participant observer, observing classes and spending time in lunch...

... candidates outside the USA. Hadley and Fassbender (2020) moved the field in that direction, in their interview study with teacher candidates experiencing conflict between a program of “social justice-oriented teacher education” in a public university secondary English education program (particularly...

... attention to ambiguity can support four enduring goals in the field: fostering social justice, developing students’ personal growth, cultivating dispositions and skills for democracy and engendering disciplinary literacy skills. Findings The readings suggest the following: first, wrestling...

... with students and among instructors, cultivating an atmosphere of social justice awareness and the contrast of the classroom space with the wider-Hillside Vocational High School environment. Originality/value The study engages the use of YPAR within a high school class that became a unique space...

... forms of violence against them. Originality/value Centering the voices of Black mothers as critical literacy education has the potential to thwart oppressive reproductive politics and practices and promote social justice. Elaine Richardson can be contacted at: richardson.486@osu.edu...

...Hilary Janks Purpose This paper aims to problematise the notion of social justice and the moral project that underpins critical literacy education. In plural societies, do we all have a shared understanding of what social justice is or how education, currently a dividing practice, might contribute...

... , p. 115). Taken together, the ideas, research and theoretical underpinnings of CRLs gesture toward resolving the profound injustice of illiteracy by directly responding with a cadre of literacies tethered to principles of social justice, Ethnic Studies and community responsiveness. Important...

...Tamara T. Butler Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight how young people engage in social justice work. This study is guided by the following question: how do students engage in the social justice work of storytelling through art? Design/methodology/approach The title stems from...