Journal Article

Conversations with Myself

WILDER, PHILLIP

2019

Overview

Erik Erikson suggests that the development of a sense of self is one of the primary processes of adolescence. In today's world, adolescents must work to negotiate a multiplicity of deleterious narratives regarding their identities and their worth. Whether they are undocumented students faced with xenophobic messages, LGBTQ students existing within pervasive heteronormativity, African American students exposed to the normalizing of police brutality, female students contending with backlash in the #MeToo era, students dealing with economic oppression, or the harm invisible to teachers that students who seem the most protected are often suffering, students face many strategies of shaming. In their guest editorship for the English Journal (EJ) issue titled \"Writing Is Power: Helping Students Craft Their Worlds,\" Vicki McQuitty and Pamela Hickey called for stories of classrooms where students engage in authentic, world-changing writing. In fact, EJ often brings attention to powerful examples of English classrooms where critical pedagogies engage youth in using and producing texts to rewrite worlds and elevate critical consciousness.

• Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
• Subject: Academic Standards / Adolescents / African Americans / BIOGRAPHY AS CURRICULUM / Classrooms / Critical Literacy / Critical Theory / Emotions / Empathy / English language / Freedom / Grade 10 / Hispanic Americans / Inferences / Learner Engagement / Literacy / Martinez, Victor (1954-2011) / Mexican Americans / Middle Schools / Narratives / Negotiation / Oppression / Pedagogy / Personality / Police / Power / Praxis / Self Actualization / Self concept / State Standards / Students / Teachers / Teaching / Teenagers / Writers / Writing / Writing Assignments / Writing Exercises