{"id":44617,"date":"2019-08-13T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=44617"},"modified":"2023-08-24T14:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T18:40:41","slug":"davena-jackson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/davena-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Davena Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Davena Jackson is an assistant professor of urban education in the Teaching &amp; Learning Department, where she focuses on English education, language, and literacy. A veteran English educator of more than 20 years, her research-practice partnerships have sought to disrupt anti-Blackness, anti-Black racism, and white supremacy in secondary English education and classrooms. Her research centers on teachers\u2019 justice-oriented commitments and curricular and pedagogical choices that lead to the transformation and liberation of English classrooms. Her research interests also include critical literacy, culturally responsive teaching theories, justice, equity, and Black Language. In addition, Dr. Jackson is a 2023 NAEd\/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jackson is a member of the ELATE Executive Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2022-2026. She is also the faculty lead for the affiliates program at the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University and a faculty affiliate at the Center on the Ecology of Early Development at BU Wheelock. Her work has been published in <em>Research in the Teaching of English<\/em>, <em>Conference on College Composition &amp; Communication<\/em>, <em>Journal Literacy Research<\/em>, <em>Teachers College Record<\/em>, and the <em>International Review of Qualitative Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pronouns: she\/her<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2023\/why-bu-wheelock-changed-its-english-education-mat-degree\/\">Why BU Wheelock Changed Its English Education MAT Degree<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2023\/bu-wheelock-scholars-earn-postdoctoral-fellowships\/\">BU Wheelock Scholars Earn Postdoctoral Fellowships<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2021\/highlights-and-coming-attractions-from-the-bu-wheelock-equity-and-social-justice-webinar-series\/\">Highlights and Coming Attractions from the BU Wheelock Equity and Social Justice Webinar Series<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2019\/welcome-to-wheelock-new-faculty-members\/\">BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty Members<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":7120,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/44617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/44617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71747,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/44617\/revisions\/71747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}