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Based on a two-year study of K-3 students, this book provides an important missing link in the study of emergent literacy: the peer group and the classroom contexts that surround it. Most works on children’s writing stress that children must “disembed” or “decontextualize” their written texts from dependency on other symbolic media and other people.…
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1 Abstract: CaShawn Thompson’s hashtag, #BlackGirlMagic, has transformed into a movement over the past five years. The hashtag focuses on celebrating the beauty, influence, and strength of Black women and girls. However, Thompson’s term sits in a space of tension, where contradictory interpretations create boundaries around what Black girl celebration means as well as who…
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Within the context of a common school activity, this study exam- ined the meanings young children express in talk, pictures, and written text, focusing on how children draw upon all three in one composing event. Data collection took place an average of twice per week over a five-month period in a public school kindergarten. Collected…
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Studying Children’s Social and Textual Lives – Appropriated and Disputed Heroes The Blobs and the X-People – New Perspectives on Old Representations The Trials and Tribulations of Emily and Other Media Misses – Text as Dialogic Medium The Coming of Venus Tina – Texts as Markers and Mediators of Tough Talking Kids Transformed and Silenced…
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The rampant murder of Black women and girls in the United States proves that this place is not safe for them. In fact, it is questionable whether any space currently known can be safe when antiblackness and misogynoir are interwoven into the fabric of our world. For this reason, researchers must explore the unbound landscapes…
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Children in our diverse society are not only learning to read and write texts; (key are learning to read and write human possibilities. They read each other’s faces and clothes as closely as they do any storybook, and they write each other’s future in the stories they imagine. This article is an analytic narrative about…
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Drawing on Black feminist/womanist storytelling and the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space, this article showcases how one Black girl uses speculative fiction as testimony and counterstory, …
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Background Research on children’s play asserts that children’s identities are performed and (re)formed in peer groups where they try out identities and make sense of their social worlds. Yet there are kinds of play (e.g., violence, gore, sexuality, and consumer culture) that are often hidden and taken underground, deemed inappropriate for public spaces. These underground…
