Promoting Social Justice through School and Community Research

In this article, the authors illustrate how researching a school community can help novice teachers, and in turn their future students, question dominant narratives about people and places and foster social justice. The projects discussed here were inspired by discussions in their culminating undergraduate methods class to have their students create digital projects centered on issues important to their communities. This article will be helpful to English teachers, English teacher leaders, and English teacher educators who want to explore the integration of socially relevant, critical research topics in order to foster social justice.