TYCA Conference Poster/Presentation: Voices Matter
Anna Estrada presented Voices Matter: Creating a Roadmap for Place-Based Connectivity & Advocacy, at NCTE's TYCA (Two-Year College Association) conference in Spokane (April 3) based on continuing collaborative research with Ann Kendall (original research and course design AK). This research led to the current version of ENG 102 taught in all sections which focuses on voice, tribal sovereignty and voting rights. Key foundations for this research and course design are listed under the poster below. Ann and Anna's research and scholarship in this arena will continue through further development of readings and resources that address voice through civics education within ENG course development and delivery.
Reading, Writing, & Raising Voices: The Centrality of Literacy to Civic Education, NCTE 2022 NCTE Resolution 2019
- English Education for Critical Literacy in Politics and Media. Per the resolution, NCTE will: promote pedagogy and scholarly curricula in English and related subjects that instruct students in civic and critical literacy, going beyond basic reading comprehension to the thinking skills that enable students to analyze and evaluate sophisticated persuasive techniques in all texts, genres, and types of media, current and yet to be imagined; support classroom practices that examine and question uses of language in order to discern inhumane, misinformative, or dishonest discourse and arguments; prioritize research and pedagogies that encourage students to become “critical thinkers, consumers, and creators who advocate for and actively contribute to a better world
NCTE Position Statement 2022: Educators’ Right and Responsibilities to Engage in Antiracist Teaching, “Knowledge of the past exists to serve the needs of the living.”
NCTE Position Statement 2020 on Indigenous Peoples and People of Color (IPOC) in English and Language Arts Materials, “Part of this discrimination takes place in the form of erasure, and these communities continue to face a school curriculum that, for them, frequently downplays or does not include their communities’ work and contributions.”
Smith, C. "Leaning into the Wyrd: Confessions of a Recovering Basic Writer" 2022