Stumbling into Folklore

Featuring student work and reflections from Camryn Johnson, Haley Priest, Kennedy Johnson, Paxton Ballard, Madelyn LeDoux, Sierra Fox, and Anna Grace Franques Undergraduates in our Introduction to Public Speaking course share special objects and tell stories from...

Denying Black Girlhood

Racialized Listening Practices in the Elementary Classroom by Kennedi Alexis Johnson In April of 2017, I was in my third month of student teaching in a general music classroom. At this point in the semester, I taught all classes—three sections each of kindergarten...

Ago/Ame

As the field of education offers more inclusive learning environments for students from different backgrounds—for example, cultural, socioeconomic, and neurological, to name a few—providing  alternative education models challenges the “one-size-fits-all” approach in...

Shifting Paradigms Toward Equity

In this article, I highlight ways I used folklore as a central part of my strategies to raise the critical consciousness of predominantly white preservice teachers by introducing them to multicultural histories, concepts, and knowledges as I prepared them to fulfill...