Through this piece, we draw upon critical race theory and Collins's Afrocentric feminist epistemology to highlight the importance of storytelling as a knowledge validation system in Black women's language. We illuminate and analyze a dialogic performance of two Black female literacy scholars in a coffee house "sipping tea," sharing…

Compares epistemological changes resulting from alphabetization in ancient Greece to similar changes in nursing education. Three dynamics are explored: sedimentation of words, growth of criticism, and the new rationality. Suggests that criticism is a positive change, the devaluing of sensory and experiential knowledge a negative change. Contains…

Native Americans have oral traditions that are distinct from the European literacy consciousness, having different modes of discourse, different kinds of metaphorical thinking, and different conceptions of teaching as storytelling. Storytelling is important in children's education, but to be effective and respectful of Native culture, school…