Research in the Teaching of English Feb 2023

In Dialogue: Mapping Our Truths—Envisioning the Future of Multimodal Research for Racial Justice

Jennifer D. Turner University of Maryland, College Park ; Angela M. Wiseman North Carolina State University ; Justin Coles ; Stephanie P. Jones ; Marva Cappello San Diego State University ; Reka Barton ; Autumn A. Griffin California University of Pennsylvania ; Alicia Rusoja University of California, Davis ; Angie Zapata University of Missouri

Abstract

With funding from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Marva Cappello, Jennifer D. Turner, and Angela M. Wiseman convened a group of critical multimodal scholars in April 2022 to initiate a national agenda that prioritizes the use of visual and multimodal methodologies to promote educational equity and racial justice for youth of color. Our conference gathering included Reka Barton, Darielle Blevins, Justin Coles, Autumn A. Griffin, Stephanie P. Jones, Alicia Rusoja, Amy Stornaiuolo, Claudine Taaffe, Tran Templeton, Vivek Vellanki, and Angie Zapata. The dialogue presented in this article centers around a collaboratively composed image (see ) created three months after our initial convening. Participants from the conference chose an image that reflected our time together and represented our hopes and dreams moving forward. Inspired by kitchen-table talk methodology (), we share our ideas through images and text reflecting on how critical visual and multimodal methodologies facilitate access, equity, and hope in education and educational research.

Journal
Research in the Teaching of English
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2023-02-01
DOI
10.58680/rte202332356
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multimodality race and writing
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