"Partnerships in/as/for Literacies" explores the idea that literacies are as much evolving processes as they are static contents. Co-authored by university- and school-based teachers and teacher educators, pre-service teachers, and youths, columns consider how very traditional literacies (e.g., in reading, writing, composing, speaking,…

The study of a middle school social studies project this article addresses occurred in the national capital region of the United States, where perceptions of ''patriotism'' and xenophobic immigration policies were the subjects of frequent media reports. With this examination the authors considered the overarching research question ''How do middle…