... influence the ways participants respond in this study. Cultural resources and physical artifacts inherently linked to a place influence one’s identity and literacy, but such resources are also necessarily situated within existing power structures (Bartlett, 2005). For this study, we examine the cultural...

... and Norton’s (2015) investment model, integrating identities, ideologies and capital forms. Findings The learners demonstrated significantly varying perceptions and strategic navigation of constraints (e.g. compartmentalization, pragmatic compliance and covert resistance) based on their age, gender...

... identity construction, this paper aims to explore how one gay-identifying undergraduate student positioned his own identity in relation to a series of queer-themed young adult (YA) texts. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from a larger practitioner-inquiry project at a Northeastern university...

... stories with and through artifacts; and attending to complexities and the complicating of embodied identities. Originality/value The authors conclude with productive implications significant to educational researchers, teacher educators and educators. Corresponding author Vaughn W.M. Watson...

...Taylor Rose-Dougherty; Mike P. Cook; James S. Chisholm Purpose By studying how English Language Arts preservice teachers (PSTs) talk about composing graphic narratives featuring identities they do/don’t share, this paper aims to investigate how their identities and positionalities came to bear...

... narratives intentionally disrupt anti-fat bias. Findings Body size and fatness are identities that need to be included in diversity efforts within education. Books like The (Other) F Word: A celebration of the fat and fierce (Manfredi, 2019) and Big (Harrison, 2023) offer positive representations...

... responses and stance-taking practices when reading about historic acts of racial violence. For the purposes of this study, we use the sociolinguistic concept of stance (Jaffe, 2009 ; Du Bois, 2007), defined as a patterned linguistic expression that reflects a speaker’s identity in an interactional...

...Danielle Filipiak; Limarys Caraballo Purpose This paper aims to examine critical, college-going identities and literacies of first-generation immigrant youth within a dual enrollment, youth participatory action research seminar. Design/methodology/approach This study is a qualitative case...

...-advisor to support queer and trans youth, families and educators. If privilege, as Ahmed (2013) argues, can be understood as an energy-saving device, then I attempt to leverage the reserves afforded through my identities as a white, straight, cis man to affect change in schools, so they become more...

...? Donna: Yes? Teacher: No, he actually didn’t […] because very what? Very few people what? Donna: See it. Teacher: See it, right […] © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Identity English teaching Constructions...

...Shea Kerkhoff; Molly Broere; David Premont Purpose Previous research shows that identity and academic learning are interdependent, so affecting one can affect the other. The purpose of this case study was to explore preservice English teachers’ reading identities and their perceptions of reading...

..., the author draws on scholarship that conceptualizes literacies as performative (Alexander, 2005; Youdell, 2010) to examine how engaging in a standardized performance assessment process shaped the teaching identities that participants carried into their first years of teaching in the field. Design...

..., connected to quality and diverse literature and (re)defined themselves in ways that addressed misconceptions about their identities (Kirkland, 2017 ; Lyiscott, 2017 ; Wissman, 2011 ; Lopez, 2011). This literature provides evidence of pedagogical practices that politicize poetry and use its reading...

... dimensions of multimodal (counter)storytelling, the communicative practice used to (re)name, remix and challenge epistemic notions of objective reality, this paper aims to highlight how youth worked to (de)compose and (re)author multiple identities and social relationships across online/offline contexts...

..., especially in terms of teaching and learning in English education and ELA. They believe the field of English education should begin to discuss this issue. Like Lensmire et al., we believe the dominant discourse of white privilege is an incomplete way by which to understand white identity...

... “Spanish as a Heritage Language” classes. We studied our Latina/o and indigenous histories and identities, and, for the first time, we had the opportunity to learn in school about the strong family of struggle and collective action that we come from. We use all of our languages to add our voice to critical...

...-use rights only Identity Critical literacy Social justice Writing Teaching literature Ethnic Studies Momentum around the institutionalization of Ethnic Studies in US K-12 classrooms is gaining widespread attention. Opponents such as Arizona’s Attorney General Tom Thorne and former...

... such an inclination for agreement, are delineated. Originality/value Previous studies on the role of discussion within educational settings have focused on the possibilities of dialogue to contribute to the construction of individuals’ identities and also to encourage participants to arrive at a singular...

...Hristina Keranova Purpose This study aims to use the works of Bakhtin and theorists who further developed his ideas to show the struggle teachers go through in trying to balance different identities in the classroom and the effect of that process on student learning. Design/methodology/approach...

... of the participants’ experiences in these, it was revealed that their identity was tangled with that of the (English) teacher, consumer, (international) student and non-native speaker. The meaning systems of these identities were based on the mixture of the Korean traditional and Western or modern educational values...