Language Arts - Volume 99, Issue 6, 2022

This study uses storytelling methodology to explore how three teachers from Hawai‘i draw on the knowledge and practices of their students’ families and communities as an integral, consistent component of their place-based pedagogy.

We examine teachers’ use of everyday objects to elicit families’ stories and teachers’ ability to identify in those stories cultural models that inform assets pedagogies.

In this article, Vera Naputi describes how her and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz’s decade-long friendship and love of hip-hop led to the creation of a curriculum based on the book Love from the Vortex & Other Poems, written by Vera and her students.

Through critical dialogue in a community-based space, adolescent refugee girls process their experiences to interrogate stereotypes attributed to students from refugee backgrounds.