{"id":66719,"date":"2021-02-02T13:55:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=66719"},"modified":"2023-09-07T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:55:08","slug":"in-new-column-dr-laura-jimenez-advocates-for-teacher-use-of-social-justice-oriented-literature","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2021\/in-new-column-dr-laura-jimenez-advocates-for-teacher-use-of-social-justice-oriented-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"In New Column, Dr. Laura Jim\u00e9nez Advocates for Teacher Use of Social Justice-Oriented Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin news-block-editorial-leadin has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Equity, Diversity &amp; Inclusion<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn New Column, Dr. Laura Jim\u00e9nez Advocates for Teacher Use of Social Justice-Oriented Literature\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">February 2, 2021<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2019\/03\/Jimenez-new.jpg\"><img src=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2019\/03\/Jimenez-new-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42359\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Dr. Laura Jimenez<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/laura-m-jimenez\/\">Dr. Laura Jim\u00e9nez<\/a>, BU Wheelock lecturer and department chair for language and literacy education, has published \u201c<a href=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2021\/02\/LA_Volume_98_Issue_3_Language-Arts-Lessons_-Mirrors-and-Windows-with-Texts-and-Readers_-Intersectional-Social-Justice-at-Work-in-the-Classroom.v2.pdf\">Mirrors and Windows with Texts and Readers: Intersectional Social Justice at Work in the Classroom.<\/a>\u201d The column, published in <em>Language Education<\/em>, calls for social justice to be an integrated part of the way teachers select texts for their classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the column, Jim\u00e9nez urges English Language Arts teachers to keep social justice at the forefront of their minds as they choose the reading materials they use. One way to do this, she suggests, is to diversify the curriculum by using #OwnVoices texts, which are texts by authors from marginalized or under-represented groups writing about their own experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-3.27.36-PM.png\"><img src=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-3.27.36-PM-476x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52728\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTeachers must work to create new norms in their classrooms, which includes thinking differently about the kinds of texts they read with their students,\u201d says Jim\u00e9nez, who keeps a sticky note similar to the image shown to help her center her literary choices. \u201cBy reading and learning about the way oppression works in the world, teachers and students &nbsp;can work together to begin to dismantle these systems by thinking and writing about ways to disrupt them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At BU Wheelock, Dr. Jim\u00e9nez applies a social justice lens to her studies of literature and literacy. She focuses on the ways teachers think about and understand systems of inequity and privilege in education, their own roles within those systems, and the texts they use in their classrooms. Dr. Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s work supports teachers\u2019 active engagement with Children\u2019s and Young Adult literature and critically evaluates the representation of mis- and under-valued communities within children\u2019s literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ncte.org\/resources\/journals\/language-arts\/\"><em>Language Arts<\/em><\/a> is the premier journal for the teaching of language arts, focusing primarily on issues concerning children of preschool through middle school age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about #OwnVoices texts <a href=\"https:\/\/seattle.bibliocommons.com\/list\/share\/628692720\/1259856807#:~:text=%23OwnVoices%20is%20a%20term%20coined,character%20from%20an%20underrepresented%20group.\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Laura Jim\u00e9nez, BU Wheelock lecturer and department chair for language and literacy education, has published \u201cMirrors and Windows with Texts and Readers: Intersectional Social Justice at Work in the Classroom.\u201d The column, published in Language Education, calls for social justice to be an integrated part of the way teachers select texts for their classrooms. 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