Life Histories as Culturally Responsive Teaching: Teachers as Writers and Performers
摘要
This chapter describes the possibilities when in-service educators engage in RISP (Read, Interpret, Script, Performance) and become writers and performers. Teachers’ voices echo the power of Life Histories in multiple contexts (International Literacy Conference in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 22nd European Conference on Literacy in Dublin, Ireland, and the 2nd Summer Writing Institute at Rowan University). The chapter also highlights educators in the 2nd Summer Writing Institute at Rowan University as they apply their understandings of Gholdy Muhammad’s Five Pursuits for Culturally and Historically Responsive Education (2023) to their Life Histories from Jason Reynolds’ novel Long Way Down.