A Path Forward: A Critical Race Mixed-Methods Study of Social Justice Teacher Education
Study shows how preservice teachers learn social justice teaching and address equity issues in the classroom through redesigned coursework.
Ganiva Reyes
Social Justice, Equity, and Transformative Pedagogy
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English Language Arts Teaching as Guided Meaning-Making
This study reimagines English Language Arts as a space for critical literacy, student agency, and democratic learning through reframing ELA teaching toward guided meaning-making pedagogical approac...
Kelli Rushek
Miami University researchers show how teaching critical literacy helps future teachers analyze pop culture and gender representation.
Katherine Batchelor • Kelli Rushek
Teaching in the cracks: Rethinking curriculum for equity-centered education
Miami University professor Brian Schultz shows how equity-centered teaching transforms curriculum and teacher preparation.
Brian Schultz
The Gradual Release of the Canonical Grasp: An Exercise in Excavation
Miami University researchers show how, through sociocultural theoretical principles of teaching and learning, English educators can guide preservice ELA teachers to disrupt canonical texts like To ...
Kelli Rushek
This study explores how an early-career Asian American ELA teacher uses narrative inquiry to build anti-racist, love-centered teaching practice.
Kelli Rushek
Miami professor Brian D. Schultz explores how educators use creative insubordination to teach for equity amid political attacks on divisive concepts and controversial issues.
Brian Schultz
Collaborative curriculum design excavative frameworks help teachers reflect on identity and create culturally sustaining literacy pedagogy.
Kelli Rushek
When students lead learning: A classroom pivot toward inquiry and justice
Miami researchers explore how inquiry-based, emergent curriculum empowers young learners as knowledge producers and change agents.
Brian Schultz
Pre-service Teachers’ Implicit Bias: Impacts of Confrontation, Reflection, and Discussion
Study shows how preservice teachers use reflection, discussion, and critical literacy to examine implicit bias and deepen understanding of race and identity.
Katherine Batchelor
Contextual gatekeeping: Teacher decision making in multiple and overlapping milieus
Miami University research explores how teachers make decisions about teaching controversial issues and why this matters for citizenship education.
Tom Misco
Using Linked Text Sets to Promote Advocacy and Agency Through a Critical Lens
Study shows how linked text sets help preservice teachers use critical literacy to explore diverse young adult texts and social justice themes.
Katherine Batchelor
Down the Rabbit Hole: Using The Matrix to Reflect on Teacher Education
A self-study uses The Matrix to rethink teacher education, democratic aims, and social justice through fresh curriculum studies insights.
Katherine Batchelor
Operationalizing Social Justice in Social Studies Education
Miami University researchers show how teaching controversial issues builds reflective thinking and promotes social justice in schools.
Tom Misco