Journal of Language & Literacy Education

Editor’s Introduction | Empathy Beyond Sympathy: Rediscovering Humanity 

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Research Articles

"I Know I'm A Good Teacher": An Inquiry into Literacy Teachers' Conceptions of Success by Jennifer Ervin 

Situating Literacy in Secondary ELA: Discursive Tensions in Novice Teachers' Ideological Becoming by Holly Sheppard Riesco and Christian Z. Goering 

Using Self-Reflection to Improve Racial Literacy: One White ELL Teacher's Journey by Nicole R. Misra 

Disrupting Invisibility in Dual Language: Visualizing #BlackGirlMultilingualMagic Through Selfies & Spaces by Reka C. Barton 

Teaching Tragedies Following Personal Loss: Teachers' Heavy Emotional Labor Load by Erika Watts and Mandie Bevels Dunn 

Our Poems are Praisesongs: Critical Spiritual Literacies in the Hip Hop and Spoken Word Classroom by Brian Mooney

Conceptual/Theoretical Article

Critical Literacy Needs Narrative Discourse by Robert Jean LeBlanc 

Voices from the Field

Toward Educational Transformation: Three Educators' Experiences with Critical Pedagogy Across Disciplines by Nozipho Moyo, Caroline B. Rabalais, and Ahmed Ahmed 

Scholars Speak Out

Madrasas and English Language Teaching by Yasir Hussain and Luis Javier Pentón Herrera 

Children and Young Adult Literature (CYAL) Book Reviews

Tokyo Night Parade reviewed by Joanna Meyer and Mia Meyer 

I am Golden reviewed by Sarah-Anne Hammer and Hosanna Hammer

Dreamers reviewed by Sarah-Anne Hammer and Hosanna Hammer

A Thousand Steps Into Night reviewed by Jason Kelley

Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation reviewed by Jason Kelley 

Weirdo reviewed by Jonas "Jack" Kelley