Fri, April 22, 6:00 to 7:30pm, Virtual
Chair
Mary B. McVee, University at Buffalo – SUNY
Thu, April 21, 8:00 to 9:30am, Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 2nd Level, Harbor Tower, Balboa A
Abstract
Our symposium presents critical studies that disrupt and dismantle dominant narratives that narrowly circumscribe the futures of Black and Latinx youth. Recognizing the urgent need for critical qualitative research that privileges Black and Latinx youth as multimodal knowledge makers, we address two key questions: 1) What might qualitative researchers learn from Black and Latinx youths’ multimodal compositional practices of dreaming in a broken world? and 2) How might qualitative research inform practitioners’ understanding of how these youth multimodally design social futures that are self-determined, liberatory, and hopeful? Consistent with the conference theme, our symposium fosters critical dialogue about what it means to create equitable educational systems that foster racial justice and nurture the freedom dreaming of Black and Latinx youth.
Symposium Co-Chairs: Jennifer D. Turner, University of Maryland; Autumn A. Griffin, University of Pennsylvania
Symposium Discussant: Rossina Zamora Liu, University of Maryland
Alicia Rusoja, Saint Mary's College of California
Yared Portillo, University of California – Berkeley
Olivia Vazquez Ponce, Swarthmore College
Grace D. Player, University of Connecticut – Storrs
Oluwaseun Animashaun, Teachers College, Columbia University
Sophia Rodriguez, University of Maryland
Kristin Sinclair, Georgetown University
Timothy Monreal, California State University
Tisha Lewis Ellison, The University of Georgia
Tairan Qiu, University of Georgia - Athens
Thu, April 21, 2:30 to 4:00pm, San Diego Convention Center, Floor: Upper Level, Sails Pavilion
Qinghua Chen Simon Fraser University
J. Hannah Park, The University of Texas - San Antonio
Gabrielle Elizabeth Bernal, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Karin Brown, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Lindsey Mann, University of Michigan
Thu, April 21, 4:15 to 5:45pm, Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 2nd Level, Harbor Tower, Balboa A
Margaret R. Hawkins, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Wei Li, University College London (UCL)
Saem Heo, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Aylar Adeh, Simon Fraser University
Betsy Beckert, Boston University
Sujin Kim, George Mason University
Fri, April 22, 8:00 to 9:30am, San Diego Convention Center, Floor: Upper Level, Sails Pavilion
Ekta Shokeen, University of Maryland - College Park
Nihal Katirci, University of Maryland - College Park
Amber Simpson, Binghamton University - SUNY
Caroline "Caro" Cassie-Marie Williams-Pierce, University of Maryland, College Park
Author Lucy K. Spence, University of South Carolina
Pedro L dos Santos, Simon Fraser University
Fri, April 22, 9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT), SIG Virtual Rooms, SIG-Semiotics in Education: Signs, Meanings and Multimodality Virtual Paper Session Room
Chairs
Sunny Man Chu Lau, Bishop's University
Zhongfeng Tian, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Discussants
Hilary Janks, University of the Witwatersrand
Angel M. Y. Lin, Simon Fraser University
Aiming to disrupt raciolinguistic ideologies, this symposium articulates and showcases studies that adopt a critical heteroglossic perspective toward translanguaging (TL) pedagogies that focus on critical literacy (CL) and embrace an expansive, ecological, distributed view of language to offer new lenses/dimensions for critical engagements. This symposium features a conceptual paper articulating such an expansive view of critical TL aimed for greater change-enhancing possibilities in additional language classrooms. Three presentations on classroom research will follow, speaking to how such critical TL approaches (e.g., legitimizing whole-body sense making, leveraging non-alphabetic, embodied Indigenous literacies, and creating TikToks for heritage language learners to explore racialized identities) can help challenge coloniality in language and language education in South Africa, Mexico, and U.S.
Carolyn McKinney, University of Cape Town
Mario E. Lopez-Gopar, Universityersidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca
Josh Lius Prada, Indiana University - IUPUI
Fri, April 22, 11:30am to 1:00pm, Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 2nd Level, Harbor Tower, Seaport Ballroom A
The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate integration of diverse theories, research methods, and educational implications with critical multimodality and social semiotics (CMSS). Our goal is to reframe how these theories work together to support de-centering “dominant” (i.e., white, patriarchal, ableist, heteronormative, etc.) ideas of power and what counts as purposeful meaning making among scholars from diverse perspectives and educational contexts. Our workshop will feature breakout groups discussing scholars’ theorizing and research using CMSS relating to: 1) protest; 2) digital storytelling; 3) time, place, and space; and 4) built learning environments. Breakout groups seek to interactively answer: “What can educational researchers learn from the theoretical application of CMSS through the work of scholars across different orientations, institutions, and contexts?”
Chairs:
Katarina Nicole Silvestri, SUNY - College at Cortland
Tiffany M Nyachae, The Pennsylvania State University
Nichole Barrett, University at Buffalo - SUNY
Discussant:
Mary B. McVee, University at Buffalo - SUNY
Jason Manbo Ho, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Amy Walker, Indiana University - Bloomington
Davena Jackson, Boston University
Sara Cooper, Murray State University
Andrea Boyles, Murray State University
Gregory Ramírez, Murray State University
Theda Gibbs Grey, Ohio University
Jennifer Danridge Turner, University of Maryland - College Park
Alexis Young, University of Maryland - College Park
William Davis, University of Oklahoma
Vicki G Mokuria, Stephen F. Austin State University
Matthew R Deroo, University of Miami
Kyesha Isadore, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park
Angelica Galvan, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park
Tue, April 26, 9:45 to 11:15am, AERA Virtual Poster Rooms, AERA Virtual Poster Room 1
Laura Brass, The University of British Columbia
Tue, April 26, 4:15 to 5:45pm, AERA Virtual Poster Rooms, AERA Virtual Poster Room 1
Yiqi Liu, The Education University of Hong Kong