Decolonizing Literacies Disrupting, Reclaiming, and Remembering Relationship in Literacy Education

1. Introduction: Decolonizing Literacies
Towani Duchscher and Kimberly Lenters

2. Artist's Statement
AJA Louden

3. Wa’gwan: Graffiti Art
AJA Louden

4. Decolonizing Literacies: A Door Back Into Ourselves
Towani Duchscher

Section I: DISRUPTING

5. I Know You Are, and I Am Sorry: An Inquiry Into Anger and Hope
Lesley Tait

6. A Reminder of Who I Was 
Courtney Walcott

7. Finding Our Way Through Decolonizing English for Second Language Literacies: A Call for Multiple Approaches of Knowing and Being in Curriculum
Danni Chen

8. 3 Poems: Listen Again: Poem 1: English Class
Adetola Adedipe (aka aloT of Poetry)

Section II: RECLAIMING
 
9. Skoden: Graffiti Art
AJA Louden

10. Reclaiming Literacy: Embodying the Stories the Land Reveals
Janis Weasel Bear-Johnson 

11. Writing it small–Living it LOUD: Hip Hop Movement, Art, and Diaglogue to Explore Decolonial Imaginaries for Literacy Learning

Bianca Nightengale-Lee, AJA Louden, and Jay Musodi

12. Literacies of Love: Exploring Love, Value, and Respect in Diverse Learning Spaces
Zahra Golneshan

13. 3 Poems: Listen Again: Poem 2: Live Loud in white walls
Adetola Adedipe (aka aloT of Poetry)

Section III: REMEMBERING RELATIONSHIP

14. What Does It Mean to Read/Write Graffiti as Literacy?
AJA Louden

15. Anti-Racism Literacies: A Place of Belonging for Racialized Students
Sonia Aujla-Bhullar

16. Kistónnoon Ihtaisap’op Tsinikssinistsi – Our Way Is Through Our Stories
Ahstanskiaki Sandra Manyfeathers

17. Reflecting Through the Fourth Wall
Harrison Campbell

18. Un-settling Settler Allyship: A Response to Harrison Campbell's Reflecting Through the Fourth Wall
Towani Duchscher

19. Moving Beyond Awareness Toward Action: An Interview With Dr April Baker-Bell
April Baker-Bell and Towani Duchscher

20. 3 Poems: Listen Again: Poem 3: Listen
Adetola Adedipe (aka aloT of Poetry)

21. Conclusion: Reflecting on Decolonizing Literacies: Remembering Relationships with Each Other, Our Ancestors, and the World
Towani Duchscher and Kimberly Lenters

Biography

Towani Duchscher is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Towani Duchscher is a Black, mixed-race educator, dancer, and poet. Duchscher holds a doctorate in the specialization of Curriculum and Learning. Her research attends to how lessons of racism and marginalization are embodied and perpetuated through the explicit, implicit, and null curriculums in schools. Her research interests include decolonization, arts-based research, hidden curriculum, education for decolonization, and anti-racist education. She has authored publications in peer-reviewed journals including Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry and Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies.

Dr. Kimberly Lenters is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Language and Literacy Education at the University of Calgary where her research focuses on the social material worlds of children’s literacy development. Kim’s work has consistently focused on those students whose literacy practices are seen to be out-of-step (and therefore, generally unwelcome) in classroom spaces. Most recently, Kim’s work has focused on the relationship between play and literacy in spaces beyond the preschool and Kindergarten setting. In addition to several chapters in edited volumes, her work has been published in journals such as Reading Teacher, Literacy, English Teaching: Practice & Critique, Journal of Literacy Research, and Research in the Teaching of English (2019). She is also the co-editor of the volume, Affect and Embodiment in Critical Literacy: Assembling Theory and Practice (2020).