Full Description
Luminous Literacies shares examples of teachers and educators using local knowledge to illustrate literacy engagement and curriculum-making through scholarly accounts of experiences in teacher preparation courses, classrooms, and other community spaces in New Mexico.
This edited collection includes chapters focusing on the teaching of Native American literature to indigenous students in what used to be an assimilation school; learning to code while making connections to the bomb-building that was part of New Mexican history; using graphic novels and text sets that reflect local identities and concerns; and examining the duality of querencia/herencia with teachers from across the United States in a National Endowment of the Humanities-funded project. Teachers present counter narratives to literacy knowing and learning in places with extensive colonial histories.
These chapters provide vivid demonstrations of what literacy is, how literacies are positioned in communities and contexts, and how literacies come alive as they are taught. This is essential reading for practicing teachers, teacher education researchers, cultural studies scholars, and educational leaders.
Contents
Part One: Highlighting Our Contexts
Chapter 1. Teachers of New Mexico: A Photo Essay; Michelle Jewett and Eli Henley
Chapter 2. Querencias, Contested Homelands, and Sites as Storied Texts: Exploring the Place Orientations of New Mexico in a Teacher Workshop; Rebecca M. Sanchez
Chapter 3. Dialogue Journals in the Secondary Classroom: Promoting Growth, Resilience, and Storytelling; Isabella Perea
Chapter 4. Reimagining Doctoral Education for Sociocultural Goals in New Mexico: One Department's Story; Don Zancanella
Part Two: Using Personal Histories to Illuminate Literacy Texts and Practices
Chapter 5. Individual, Historical, and Critical Contexts: Investigating the Text Selection Practices of Four New Mexican Language Arts Teachers; Annmarie Sheahan
Chapter 6. Waking Up to the Literacies and Diversities of New Mexico; Monique Montoya
Chapter 7. Creating a Safe Space for Students to Explore Trauma and Build Resilience Through Young Adult Literature, Creative Composing, and Personal Experiences; Brittany R. Raymond
Chapter 8. Radical Drama as Educational Catharsis; Damon R. Carbajal
Part Three: Finding Light in Critical Practices and Local Identities
Chapter 9. Transforming Teaching Through Critical Literacies; Rachel Goar
Chapter 10. Creating Locally Relevant Curriculum with Graphic Novels; Mark R. Bailon
Chapter 11. Teaching Indigenous Literature and History as US Literature and History; Brigid Ovitt
Chapter 12. Asserting LGBTQIA+ Literacy Practices in the Curriculum; Ashley Nowikowski
Part Four: Luminous Multimodal Literacies in Action
Chapter 13. Literacies to Grow and Teach: Cultivating a Spirit of Inquiry through Multimodal Text Sets; Rick Marlatt
Chapter 14. Using Multimodal Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities in a Non-Traditional Classroom; Gloria A. Valderrama Polo
Chapter 15. Creating a Classroom Affinity Space with Video Games and Virtual Reality as Literature; Miles Madison Harvey and Lucretia E. Penny Pence
Part Five: Shedding light on literacies past and future
Chapter 16. Cultivating the Activist Life; Richard J. Meyer
Chapter 17. How Yazzie-Martinez v. NM Highlights Inequities in Public Education for Indigenous Students and Underscores the Need for Critical Literacy Education; Natalie Martinez
