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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
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"This Is Manist": Counterscripts as Catalysts for Change in the English Curriculum
Panther, Leah
Multicultural Perspectives, v22 n4 p194-200 2020
When Ana, a student in Miss Jerome's American Literature course, watched a makeup tutorial instead of completing her assigned work, it became a critical incident highlighting how one educator used student counterscripts to critically center students' ways of knowing and ways of being in the English curriculum. Using culturally sustaining pedagogies as a framework, the instructional practices reflect resistance to western, Eurocentric literacy standards and school standards of professionalism that reify white supremacy. By centering orality through multi-party discourse and literary theory, ultimately the youth in Miss Jerome's classroom learned literacies to make agentive decisions about their own bodily autonomy.
Descriptors: Educational Change, Decision Making, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Literacy, United States Literature, English Curriculum, Critical Incidents Method, Personal Autonomy, Student Attitudes, Standards, Professionalism, Whites, Power Structure, Oral Language, High School Students, English Teachers, Educational Policy, Hispanic American Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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