| Owner: |
Isela Almaguer
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| Owner Email: |
isela.almaguer@utrgv.edu
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| Paper Title: |
Analyzing the Significance of Cultural Praxis in Reading Research: (Re)Construing Multiculturalism in Literacy Epistemology
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| Session Title: |
Indigeneity and Methodology (Table 6)
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| Paper Type: |
Roundtable Presentation
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| Presentation Date: |
4/12/2024
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| Presentation Location: |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| Descriptors: |
Cultural Capital, Literacy, Multiculturalism
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| Methodology: |
Qualitative
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| Author(s): |
Isela Almaguer, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
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| Unit: |
SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
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| Abstract: |
Cornerstone to learning is language and literacy. Literacy epistemology is exemplified through praxis that acknowledges languages and cultures. Expanding our view of literacy to include culturally empowering practices broadens and magnifies our views of reading research. Cultural empowerment bridges our literacy, language and learning by recognizing and validating our lived experiences. Focusing on Literacy epistemology or the study of the sources of knowledge, the researcher sought to conceptualize culturally sustaining pedagogical practices as inclusive literacy practices harmonious to our understanding of reading and literacy research. Key to navigating cultural and traditional practices as spaces to counter deficit perspectives, we magnify multilingualism, multiliteracy, and multiculturalism, thus highlighting our strengths that excel and catapult our literacy advantage and challenge the status quo.
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/2102404
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