"The Creative Aspect Woke Me Up": Awakening to Multimodal Essay Composition as a Fugitive Literacy Practice

Autor/in	Ohito, Esther O.
Titel	"The Creative Aspect Woke Me Up": Awakening to Multimodal Essay Composition as a Fugitive Literacy Practice
Quelle	In: English Education, 52 (2020) 3, S.186-222 (37 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-8204
Schlagwörter	Essays; Creative Writing; Literacy; College Students; Student Attitudes; Multiple Literacies; Whites; Racial Bias; Teaching Methods; English Teachers; Teacher Education Programs; English Instruction; Black Studies; African Americans; Minority Group Teachers; Liberal Arts; Racial Attitudes; Student Diversity; Undergraduate Students; Art Products; Blacks; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Kreatives Schreiben; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; White; Weißer; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Englischunterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; English langauage lessons; Afroamerikaner; Rassenfrage; Künstlerische Produktion; Black person; Schwarzer
Abstract	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.] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01