Dianne Wellington holds a Ph.D. in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education from Indiana University Bloomington. Before Indiana University, she was a Secondary English Education Teacher and Freshman Composition Instructor in North Carolina. Dianne’s research examines emancipation literacies, transnational literacies, healing and restorative literacies, and antiracist pedagogy. As a teacher, educator, and researcher, she explores ways in which in-service teachers explore emancipation for themselves to help their students do the same. Dianne uses her transnational identity to move across spaces to further equity and antiracist practices through collaboration, reflection, and critical dialogue.
Session Description
I will present a section of a broader study that examined teachers’ and students’ emancipation literacies and dreaming in a multiple-sited transnational case study during this session. I’ll discuss the methodology I used for this project. One participant’s experience teaching the dream curriculum I developed utilizing Caribbean music, which was reconstructed to incorporate more contemporary Caribbean music, will be the main emphasis of this session. In order to describe the participants’ process of dreaming and becoming, I’ll discuss how she used emancipation literacies to share her dreams and planted seeds of hope which cultivated a safe space for her students to share their dreams. I will invite participants to discuss how they go about dreaming and becoming.