Journal of Literacy Research

✨JLR Article Spotlight✨ In JLR December's issue, Dr. Wideline Seraphin responds to rising anti-Haitian racism by examining how Haitian and Haitian American youth use writing to challenge colonial narratives. Read Dr. Seraphin's article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

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Dr. Mike Metz, Grace Chicoine, and Lauren Bayne examine differences in teachers’ uptake of critical language pedagogy and demonstrate the more teachers integrate hegemonic language into their identities, the more hesitant they are to take up critical approaches.

✨JLR Article Spotlight✨In Vol. 57, Issue 3 of JLR, Dr. Daniel Moore draws on storying, narrative inquiry, and poststructural research methods and theory to document metaphors of emergence. Read Dr. Moore's article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

Drs. Patricia Paugh, Lara Handsfield, and Deborah MacPhee reveal ways in which educational journalism uses metaphor to align the “science of reading” with values and beliefs held by conservative Christian religious groups. Read their article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

In JLR Vol. 57, Issue 2, Dr. Chaehyun Lee explores how Asian American counternarratives serve as vehicles for challenging dominant narratives and constructing an equitable classroom space for Korean American students. Read Dr. Lee's study here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

✨JLR Article Spotlight✨ In JLR, Volume 57, Issue 2, Dr. Dominique Skye McDaniel examines the literacy practices among youth of color in social media spaces dedicated to activism and civic engagement. Read Dr. McDaniel's article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

In the June issue, Dr. Jessica Masterson analyzed the figured worlds of two high school reading intervention classes through student and teacher interviews and observations and offers a glimpse into this disparity. Read Dr. Masterson's article here:  doi.org/10.1177/108629…

Dr. JaNiece Elzy-Palmer examines the complex interplay between language ideologies and oral reading assessments for Black English-speaking students within Reading Recovery, a literacy intervention for first graders. Read Dr. Elzy-Palmer's article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

In the JLR March issue, Drs. Yu, Hou,  Yu,  Cheung, and Tong examined underlying mechanisms linking family socioeconomic status (SES) to reading comprehension. Read their article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

Drs. Beauchemin, Hill, and Wilson draw upon counternarratives and theories of curriculum and dominant ideologies to explore how racetalk was silenced and dominant ideologies were legitimized in a Black student teachers' experience. Read their article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

Dr. Huang-Lan Su examined the intricate relationship between language ideology, Taiwanese identity, and the adoption of the romanized Taiwanese system (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) against the predominance of Mandarin. Read Dr. Su's article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

Drs. Mosher, Lenters, and MacDonald examine young children's outdoor narrative play. They suggest attention to understandings as part of the living lines through which literacy education might tell stories about stories. doi.org/10.1177/108629…

✨JLR Article Spotlight✨ In her insights essay, Dr. Maneka Brooks contends with creating coherence between her research and parenting practices through her struggles with unlearning adultism. Read Dr. Brooks article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

Dr. Mara Lee Grayson draws upon existing research to explore how histories of Jewishness and antisemitism disrupt binary understandings of race, power, and partisanship. Read her article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

Rahaf Naseef, Dr. Firman Parlindungan, Dr. Kathy Short, and Narges Zandi use critical content analysis to examine representations of Muslim children in contemporary picture books set in the United States through a postcolonial lens. doi.org/10.1177/108629…

Drs. Barros, Juzwik, and Gajasiinghe examine a phenomenon where fundamentalist groups attempt to pressure schools into adopting curricula whose literacy practices are rooted in a White, northern European Protestant worldview. Read their article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

Drs. Hadley, Olshefski, and Soules argue that young adult literature can serve as models of critical religious literacies when authors, characters, and historical figures engage in conflicted meaning-making. Read their article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…

In JLR's special issue, Dr. Marcus Croom explores how the Black Holiness Pentecostal Christian (BHPC) tradition is a focal point and illustrates multiple excursuses beyond Westerly notions of religion. See his article here: doi.org/10.1177/108629…