English Teaching: Practice & Critique: Volume 23 Issue 3

TikTok as a lens into teacher attrition: perspectives from #teacherquittok

Chelsey Barber, Ioana Literat

A key social networking site for teachers, TikTok offers a new and valuable lens on educator attrition. This study aims to explore social media’s role in the increased…

“This is my hill to die on”: effects of far-right conservative pushback on US English teachers and their classroom practice

Carlin Borsheim-Black

From book challenges to anti–critical race theory and anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning legislation, US English teachers have been on the receiving…

Emotions, empathy and social justice education

Peter Smagorinsky

This study aims to consider the role of emotions, especially those related to empathy, in promoting a more humane education that enables students to reach out across kinship…

Reading and (re)writing democracy: Asian American girls claim civic space through literary inquiry

Ankhi G. Thakurta

This paper aims to trace how Asian American girls engaged with civic learning in a virtual out-of-school literacy community featuring a curriculum of diverse literary texts.

“We're loud, why aren't you?” Laura’s social media activism through justice-oriented literacies

Dominique Skye McDaniel

Social media offers youth a virtual platform to build community and amplify underrepresented voices. Online spaces are often used to respond to societal issues and adopt various…

Form, criticality, and humanity: topic modeling the field of literary studies for English education

Scott Storm, Emily C. Rainey

Research on disciplinary literacy in English has struggled with how to represent large-scale disciplinary communities and consider issues of justice and power. The purpose of this…