Overview

This webinar will engage participants in a conversation about how to use the affordances of online spaces to develop antiracist writing pedagogies that can function to restore language equity and justice in first-year composition courses. More specifically, the facilitator will provide a framework to investigate writing and languaging identities through antiracist pedagogies (Baker-Bell, 2020) and Pedagogical Cultural Historical Activity Theory (P-CHAT) paired with transnational and translingual perspectives (Sánchez-Martín & Walker). The facilitator will also share specific examples of how she facilitates antiracist pedagogies in her online first-year composition courses, invite participants to reflect on how their own language identities inform their teaching, and use the proposed framework to develop their pedagogies. 

Participants Will

• Be introduced to a framework for introducing antiracist pedagogies in their online courses
• Reflect on the ways their own language identities inform their teaching
• Engage in small group activities and share key takeaways with the full group
• Discuss specific strategies for facilitating antiracist pedagogies online

Webinar Leader Bios

Cristina Sánchez-Martín is assistant professor in the Composition and Applied Linguistics (CAL) and MA TESOL programs at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she does research on and teaches about writing, language, and identity from a transnational perspective.

Overview

Dr. Iris Ruiz will be engaging attendees with hand-on experience with antiracist pedagogy. Thinking through the tensions of between theory and practice in Online Writing Instruction, Ruiz will consider the ways that we think about the "technicalities" of online learning: the "right" way to provide accessible shells that will provide a one-size-fits all model of best practices for designing and implementing remote and digital learning in its various formats. Hybrid, synchronous, asynchronous, hyflex, etc, are examples of online pedagogical models that are characterized by a variety of digital-aided learning activities, but there is still something that has not been well- established within the parameters of traditional conceptions of "access" and the circulation of what constitutes "access."

Dr. Ruiz calls educators to pay attention to the realities of being forced to move online while considering that we are "double-tasked"--we are also faced with a resurgence of Black Lives Matter movements within a nation that is racially-divided with visible white supremacist hate-groups operating across the US. This workshop will explore pedagogical adaptations that can be one way to conceive of the "curricular imperative" in an age of increasing race-consciousness and within an era of blatant white nationalism.

Participants will:

• Critique traditional conceptions of “access” in OWI
• Reflect on the “double-task” of moving online during the resurgence of BLM movements
• Explore racially conscious pedagogies

Webinar Leader Bio