Illuminating Perspectives through Critical Visual Literacy: 56th Annual IVLA Con: Full Schedule

9:00am CDT

Reflective Lenses, Global Perspectives: Integrating Visual Analysis into International Teacher Professional Development

Monday October 7, 2024 9:00am - 9:30am CDT

Park Boulevard (Aztec Student Union 1st Floor)

Within the field of teacher professional development, extensive research has been conducted regarding the benefits of international field experiences for pre-service, K-12 educators (Byker & Putman, 2019; Jacobs & Haberlin, 2022; Pilonieta et al., 2017), but less research exists regarding the benefits of such programs for in-service educators. In this session, we will share preliminary findings from an international professional development program that integrated critical reflection with digital and arts-based responses to build teachers’ global perspectives. This in-progress, narrative inquiry study (Connelly & Clandinin, 1990, 2000; Rahatzad et al., 2017) with qualitative visual methods (Rose, 2022) reveals how international travel combined with technology-supported teaching strategies and critical reflection creates the possibility for increased global competence and consciousness for educators.

Speakers

Angela Wiseman

Associate Professor of Literacy Education, North Carolina State University

Angela Wiseman is an Associate Professor of Literacy Education at NC State University and has an appointment as a scholar of multiliteracies research at the University of Tampere, Finland, and is affiliated faculty of the Center for Visual Literacies at San Diego State University... Read More →

Kevin Oliver

Professor of Learning, Design, and Technology, North Carolina State University

Dr. Kevin Oliver is a Professor of Learning, Design, and Technology (LDT) in the College of Education at North Carolina State University. In 19 years at NC State, his research and teaching has focused in three areas: 1) innovative approaches to open and distance learning, 2) applications... Read More →

Mary Estrada

Senior Lecturer, North Carolina State University

Mary Estrada is a Senior Lecturer in TESOL at North Carolina State University, where she teaches linguistics in the MA-TESOL program and writing and speaking courses to graduate and undergraduate international students. She is a doctoral student in Teaching Education and Learning... Read More →

Monday October 7, 2024 9:00am - 9:30am CDT
Park Boulevard (Aztec Student Union 1st Floor)

Paper Presentation

9:45am CDT

"Meme"oirs of a Teacher: Critical Visual Literacy to Explore the First-Year Teacher Experience

Monday October 7, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am CDT

Park Boulevard (Aztec Student Union 1st Floor)

More than just pithy asides sent during staff meetings, memes have the potential to reflect the professional development and critical consciousness of the sender. This session examines how three first-year public school teachers used content image internet memes, also known as image macros (Author, 2023; Iloh, 2021; Milner, 2016; Schiffman, 2013) to narrate and reflect on their experiences teaching in urban public schools. Using multimodal content analysis (Serafini, 2022; Serafini & Reid, 2019) and critical visual thinking strategies (Gardner, 2017), we examine how these first year teachers both resisted and reinforced dominant narratives about early career teachers and public schools in their critical digital reflection.

Speakers

Myriama Smith-Traore

Public School Teacher, Durham Public Schools

Myriama Smith-Traore (myriama_smith-traore@dpsnc.net) is a first year English teacher in Durham Public Schools in North Carolina and recent graduate of Duke University's Master of Arts in Teaching Program. Her research interests include the connection between the presence of teachers... Read More →

Caitlin Donovan

Assistant Director of the Masters of Arts in Teaching Program, Duke University

Caitlin M. Donovan, Ph.D. (caitlin.donovan@duke.edu) is Assistant Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Duke University. Her research interests center on pre-service teacher preparation, memes, and critical digital literacies.

Monday October 7, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am CDT
Park Boulevard (Aztec Student Union 1st Floor)

Campfire

10:45am CDT

Critical Multimodal Research in Education: Building Expansive Methodologies for Racial Justice

Monday October 7, 2024 10:45am - 11:30am CDT

Park Boulevard (Aztec Student Union 1st Floor)

This proposal is for a panel of chapter authors who have contributed to our upcoming book published by Routledge (Turner, Wiseman, & Cappello, 2024). This edited book prioritizes the use of critical multimodal methodologies to promote educational equity and racial justice for children and youth from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Critical multimodal methodologies that facilitate access, equity, and hope in literacy research are paramount. Visual images have saturated our everyday lives yet we know that they are not neutral (Cappello, Wiseman, & Turner, 2019; Thomas & Stornaiulo, 2016). Critical multimodal research methods can reveal how images, texts, and multimedia often function as visual microaggressions that represent and perpetuate racist ideas and beliefs about minoritized youth (Huber & Solozano, 2015).

Speakers

Naomi Ramirez, PhD

Lecturer in Teacher Education and Child & Family Development Anthropology and Ethnic Studies Instructor, San Diego State University

Dr. Naomi Ramirez teaches at multiple colleges guided by both social justice and a critical multimodal lens and interrogates Eurocentric ways of knowing, producing, and legitimizing knowledge, in the classroom. She received her PhD in education from San Diego State University and... Read More →

Angela Wiseman

Associate Professor of Literacy Education, North Carolina State University

Jennifer D. Turner

Associate Professor in Reading Education, University of Maryland, College Park

Jennifer D. Turner is an educator, literacy advocate, and critical visual scholar. She is Associate Professor in Reading Education at the University of Maryland College Park, and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Visual Literacies at San Diego State University. Her scholarship... Read More →

Marva Cappello

Professor of Literacy Education, Director and Founder of the Center for Literacies (CVL), San Diego State University

Marva Cappello, PhD is a Professor of Literacy Education at San Diego State University where she teaches masters courses in literacy as well as doctoral courses in qualitative research methods. Dr. Cappello is the Director and Founder of the Center for Literacies (CVL) which focuses... Read More →

Emmanuel Akogyeram

Ph.D student in Higher Education Opportunity, Equity, and Justice, North Carolina State University

Emmanuel Anyetei Kojo Akogyeram is a second-year part-time Ph.D. student in Higher Education Opportunity, Equity, and Justice and a full-time staff member within the Division of Academic and Student Affairs at North Carolina State University. He is a Ghanaian, a former NCAA D-1 student-athlete... Read More →

Reka Barton

Assistant Professor of Literacy, University of Maryland

Reka Barton, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Literacy at the University of Maryland. Her research explores liberatory practices and spaces in education, more specifically multilingualism, multiliteracies, and multimodality for the advancement of Black girls and women. Her research... Read More →

Darielle Blevins

Assistant Research Professor, Arizona State University

Dr. Darielle Blevins is an Assistant Research Professor with the Children’s Equity Project at Arizona State University. She is the mother of an active three-year-old. She aims to use an intersectional approach to elevate communities' voices in research to inform policy and practice... Read More →

Monday October 7, 2024 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Park Boulevard (Aztec Student Union 1st Floor)

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