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ERIC Number: EJ1310840
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Apr
Pages: 37
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ISSN: ISSN-0007-8204
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"The Creative Aspect Woke Me Up": Awakening to Multimodal Essay Composition as a Fugitive Literacy Practice
Ohito, Esther O.
English Education, v52 n3 p186-222 Apr 2020
This article details a self-study dissecting an interracial group of students' theories of Blackness in a postsecondary classroom. I begin by conceptualizing "fugitive literacy practices" as tools with which to awaken and animate education as the practice of liberation from whiteness and anti-Blackness. I then approach multimodal essay composition as one such practice and illuminate its application in a classroom. I show how this practice affirmed students as empowered producers of knowledge. I contend that pedagogues must pivot away from the "disruption" of whiteness and anti-Blackness as a defined target, and turn toward the "destruction" of both as a desirable goal. I conclude by considering further inquiries that this provocation invites vis-à-vis curriculum and pedagogy in English teacher education. [This article was co-authored by the Fugitive Literacies Collective.]
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ohio
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