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A Historically Responsive Literacy Model for Reading and Mathematics
Author(s) -
Muhammad Gholnecsar E.,
Ortiz Nickolaus A.,
Neville Mary L.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.2035
Subject(s) - reading (process) , mathematics education , literacy , identity (music) , intellect , curriculum , psychology , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy , physics , theology , acoustics
According to data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, the U.S. educational system has consistently failed Black and Brown children across both reading and mathematics. Educational research has further uncovered the ways that reading and mathematics assessment and curriculum are often biased and culturally and linguistically unresponsive. In this article, we examine traditional reading and mathematics research to determine how Black and Brown children might be better served through historically responsive literacy. We delineate the Historically Responsive Literacy model and its five learning pursuits of identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and joy. Finally, we provide three historically responsive lessons across kindergarten, third, and sixth grade reading and mathematics. It is our hope that this work may help teachers refuse ahistorical curricular frameworks in order to better center our students’ reading and mathematics education within the pursuits of intellect, skills, identity, criticality, and joy.