In this chapter, readers learn about advocacy-based research, a form of participatory action research and community-engaged research. Inclusion, reciprocity, asset-based [...]

Framed by theories of youth, culture, identity studies, and literacy identity formation, this article examines how youth articulate themselves as writers. Using interview[...]

Framed around the perspective that identities matter in relation to literacy learning, this case study examined the identity work of June (pseudonym), a lesbian youth in [...]

Resettled youth often face many challenges while enrolled in schools, such as expectations to quickly assimilate and acquire English language and literacy skills or being[...]

Teacher education programs attempt to prepare preservice teachers for the various challenges faced in the classroom. One particular challenge new teachers face is how to [...]

Ava, a middle schooler in Texas, says she doesn't "think [teachers] . . . see . . . the full potential of what students could really be as writers." Camden, a high school[...]

Drawing from recent scholarship that examines schooling and the shifting terrain of youth identities, this study examines the identity constructions of Jessica, a Latina [...]

This research examined how preservice teachers in a university classroom used discourse analysis of video-recorded lessons to explore how identity markers such as race sh[...]

Critical conversations take on heightened importance with current tensions about issues involving race, income inequality, sexual orientation, and gender identity, both l[...]

Through research-practice partnerships (RPPs) researchers and practitioners engage in long-term problem-solving collaborations aimed, in part, at increasing the capacity [...]

Classrooms play a large part in shaping youths' identities as readers and writers. Due to the pressures of high-stakes exams, for example, reading and writing identities [...]

Despite the social justice education’s (SJE) curricular intent to foster a classroom space where everyone is welcome to participate democratically with others to mutually[...]

The authors present findings from a qualitative study of an experience that supports teacher candidates to use discourse analysis and positioning theory to analyze videos[...]

Research–practice partnerships (RPPs) have grown rapidly in the last decade in the United States to challenge traditional notions of education research by emphasizing the[...]

Facilitating critical conversations includes helping students unpack dominant ideologies, interrupting stereotypes, creating a context for marginalized voices, and strate[...]

This chapter describes the importance of providing structured opportunities for preservice teachers to engage in identity work through video analysis. Without data of cla[...]

This research study was intended to understand how the Post 9/11 enlisted female veteran population understands their gender in the context of their active duty military [...]

"I had to get to know them [his students]. Because I am disconnected from Black culture a lot, honestly. You get people who assume I'm Black or I'm not. Before I even sta[...]

This study examines the use of critical community-building—using dialogue as a collective to support, listen to, ask questions, and assist each other in thinking in criti[...]

Set in an undergraduate Secondary English Education Program, this qualitative study draws on theories of power, positioning, and identity to explore how positions of powe[...]

Over five months, six middle school teachers gathered together every other week to participate in a "teacher research" professional learning community (TR PLC). As the fa[...]

More research needs to examine how novice teachers successfully negotiate multiple ideologies with others in ways that allow them to construct preferred teaching identiti[...]

Social media offers youth a virtual platform to build community with those who share similar experiences. Moreover, it provides opportunities for marginalized teens' voic[...]

This research study focused on how students engaged in Critical Literacy practices and the ways their teacher attempted to foster such practices. The study included one e[...]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to highlight ways two novice secondary English teachers negotiated the politics of college and career readiness along with the lite[...]