TY - BOOK
T1 - Affirming Black Students' Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness
AU - Willis, Arlette Ingram
AU - Thompson McMillon, Gwendolyn
AU - Smith, Patriann
N1 - " Affirming Black Students' Lives Literacies: Bearing Witness challenges readers to think about teaching Black students with intentionality, purpose, and first and foremost, love." - Teachers College Record "Exceptionally well organized and presented, Affirming Black Students' Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to school district, college, and university library Black Studies and Contemporary Educational Studies collections."
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Drawing on the authors’ experiences as Black parents, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators, this timely book presents a multipronged approach to affirming Black lives and literacies. The authors believe change is needed—not within Black children, but in the way they are perceived and educated, particularly in reading, writing, and critical thinking across grade levels. To inform literacy teachers and school leaders, the authors provide a conceptual framework for reimagining literacy instruction based on Black philosophical and theoretical foundations, historical background, literacy research, and authentic experiences of Black students. This important book includes counternarratives about the lives of Black learners; research conducted by Black scholars among Black students; examples of approaches to literacy with Black children that are making a difference; conversations among literacy researchers that move beyond academia; and a model for engaging all students in literacy. Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies advocates for adopting a standard of care that will improve and support literacy achievement among today’s Black students by rejecting deficit presumptions and embracing the fullness of these students’ strengths.
AB - Drawing on the authors’ experiences as Black parents, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators, this timely book presents a multipronged approach to affirming Black lives and literacies. The authors believe change is needed—not within Black children, but in the way they are perceived and educated, particularly in reading, writing, and critical thinking across grade levels. To inform literacy teachers and school leaders, the authors provide a conceptual framework for reimagining literacy instruction based on Black philosophical and theoretical foundations, historical background, literacy research, and authentic experiences of Black students. This important book includes counternarratives about the lives of Black learners; research conducted by Black scholars among Black students; examples of approaches to literacy with Black children that are making a difference; conversations among literacy researchers that move beyond academia; and a model for engaging all students in literacy. Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies advocates for adopting a standard of care that will improve and support literacy achievement among today’s Black students by rejecting deficit presumptions and embracing the fullness of these students’ strengths.
UR - https://www.tcpress.com/affirming-black-students%E2%80%99-lives-and-literacies-9780807766989
M3 - Book
BT - Affirming Black Students' Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness
ER -