1. this friday, a special issue of the Journal of Negro Education will be launched with the following theme: Preparing Teachers to Teach Black Students; Preparing Black Students to Become Teachers
the volume is guest co-edited by my friend and colleague
yolanda sealey-ruiz
(along with chance lewis) and includes a wide array of articles that
take up questions related to the teaching and learning lives of black
students across contexts, their education narratives, and possible
education futures.
2. the recently published special issue of English Teaching: Practice and Critique on: Literacy(ies) and the Body guest edited by another friend and colleague
Stephanie Jones (along with
Kerryn Dixon and
James Albright)
articles include
an exploration of embodied literacies, how bodies are read and what
that has to do with education, and a piece on performing critical
literacy (written by the very thoughtful and exceptionally observant
elisabeth johnson)
3. another special issue bringing an exploration of bodies together with geographies is found in the journal
Emotion, Space and Society titled: Emotional Geographies of Education -- edited by jane kenway and deborah youdell (whose work i continue to be enamored of and blown away by)
these
articles draw on theories and metaphors of geographies and spaces to
bring forth new sites of teaching and learning, under-appreciated or
less visible contours of how we live and experience education.
