2024/11/05 by Latrise P. Johnson, Raúl Alberto Mora, Seth A. Parsons +2 · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees #Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy #Global Educational Policies and Reforms
paper · doi:10.1177/23813377241286038
openalex publication_date 2024/11/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This year's conference theme was a collective invitation to face how we, as a literacy research collective, may have played a role in marginalization and disenfranchisement and the further promotion and perpetuation of conceptual and linguistic hierarchies. The conference theme also became an invitation to propose ways to counter these existing hierarchies and how we use research as part of that solution. That was the spirit behind this year's Integrative Research Review Panel. This panel brought together five scholars, encompassing four perspectives, to tackle this year's conference theme of “Interrogating Hierarchies.” The four papers approached the conversation about hierarchies from research on Black writing, English as a global affair, the science of reading, and social design-based experiments, not only outlining the pressing issues but also proposing solutions that our research community can embrace. As we read the four papers comprising this panel, it is worth pointing out how, despite the divergent departure points that each panelist's work represents, the four papers organically lay out a series of agreements about the need to rethink how we conceive English to avoid disenfranchisement, the importance of valuing minoritized and marginalized voices to rethink literacy, and the challenges to align our research with advocacy efforts.