Disability Representations and Portrayals in Picture Books With the Coretta Scott King Award

This study analyzed how people with disabilities are portrayed in picture books with the Coretta Scott King Award (CSKA) to address the intersectionality of African/African American racial identity and disabilities. Disability critical race theory was foundational for this study. The pool of 134 picture books that received the CSKA from 1971 to 2020 was used as the data for the systematic content analysis. For analysis, the researchers utilized a qualitative approach that guided axial coding and selective coding in looking for emerging themes. They found that 13 picture books portrayed African/African American characters with disabilities. The majority of these books did not necessarily emphasize the disabilities of these characters. When focusing on other dimensions of identity such as gender, age, disability type, and so on, the researchers found underrepresentation, invisibility, and marginalization issues, which led them to discussions of power relations. This study calls for future studies that can discover more portrayals of African/African American people with disabilities and that can deepen scholarly discussions about their representation in children’s literature

Pedagogical Voyeurism: Dialogic Critique of Documentation and Assessment of Learning

We challenge a common emphasis on documentation and assessment of learning for providing good education: from the mainstream of neoliberal accountability movement to the progressive Reggio Emilia schools. We develop these arguments through discussing: 1) immeasurableness of education and learning, 2) students’ ownership/authorship of education and learning. We ground our conceptualization of educational assessment in critical dialogue, in a case of a student who requested assessment of her research project, and guided her peers and the teacher in providing different aspects of this assessment. We argue that documentation of learning on teacher’s demand leads to surveillance, discipline, distraction, teacher-student distrust, and robbing of students from ownership of their education and thus it is anti-educational

Pedagogical Voyeurism: Dialogic Critique of Documentation and Assessment of Learning

We challenge a common emphasis on documentation and assessment of learning for providing good education: from the mainstream of neoliberal accountability movement to the progressive Reggio Emilia schools. We develop these arguments through discussing: 1) immeasurableness of education and learning, 2) students’ ownership/authorship of education and learning. We ground our conceptualization of educational assessment in critical dialogue, in a case of a student who requested assessment of her research project, and guided her peers and the teacher in providing different aspects of this assessment. We argue that documentation of learning on teacher’s demand leads to surveillance, discipline, distraction, teacher-student distrust, and robbing of students from ownership of their education and thus it is anti-educationa

Peritextual Elements in Chinese Nonfiction Picturebooks

The focus of this study was to examine the peritextual information as well as the insider/outsider status of the book creators of Chinese and Chinese American nonfiction picturebooks, aiming to evaluate the authentic quality of multicultural nonfiction picturebooks

Searching for Mirror Books for Young Asian/Asian-American Children with Disabilities

America’s changing demographics and the increasing number of children with disabilities call for appropriate representations of race/ethnicity and disabilities in materials (e.g., books) for inclusive classrooms. This study analyzed how Asian/Asian-American (A/AA) people with disabilities had been portrayed in picture books with the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (APAAL) or the Schneider Family Award (SFA). We addressed the intersectionality of Asian racial cultures and disabilities, focusing on the picture books with these awards, due to the potential impact of these portrayals on children. We used 35 picture books with the APAAL from 2001 to 2020 and 18 with the SFA from 2004 to 2020 as the data for our systematic content analysis. The results showed that the number of characters with disabilities were disproportionately represented in the APAAL picture books compared to the general population of A/AA people with disabilities in the U. S. More mirror books with A/AA child characters with disabilities are needed for the U. S. early childhood classrooms

What Is Missing In Our Teacher Education Practices: A Collaborative Self-Study Of Teacher Educators With Children During The Covid-19 Pandemic

We agree that open science will influence science education publishing and JRST. In this commentary, we argue that the critical task ahead for science education researchers is to redefine what constitutes open science for science education. In so doing, we argue that we can bolster both science education and open science at the same time

Being (Asian) American children: children’s exploration of racial/cultural identity and racism

This study explores young Asian American children’s emerging ideas of racial identity and experiences of racism through multimodal representations during the COVID-19 Pandemic. To explore children’s identity and understanding of racial experience, we used Suda (수다) with children, which refers to deeply engaged conversations and often involves participants’ emotions. Adopting autoethnography, we used multiple data sources, including documentation of children’s conversations with family relating to their identity and experiences of racism and a collection of children’s artifacts. Findings showed that our children explored their racial identity in various aspects surrounding them, ranging from their body, classroom materials, and passports to their family origins. Suda provided the space for our children to freely explore their racial identities and experiences of Asian racism/Hate Crime

Pedagogical Voyeurism: Dialogic Critique of Documentation and Assessment of Learning

We challenge a common emphasis on documentation and assessment of learning for providing good education: from the mainstream of neoliberal accountability movement to the progressive Reggio Emilia schools. We develop these arguments through discussing: 1) immeasurableness of education and learning, 2) students’ ownership/authorship of education and learning.  We ground our conceptualization of educational assessment in critical dialogue, in a case of a student who requested assessment of her research project, and guided her peers and the teacher in providing different aspects of this assessment. We argue that documentation of learning on teacher’s demand leads to surveillance, discipline, distraction, teacher-student distrust, and robbing of students from ownership of their education and thus it is anti-educationa