Black Male Students Negotiate Ways of Knowing Themselves During Digital Storytelling

  • Becky Beucher Illinois State University
  • Robyn Seglem Illinois State University
Keywords: discourse, digital storytelling, Black masculinity, multiliteracies

Abstract

We explore how valuing Black male students’ literacies within academic contexts during multimodal writing can position students’ ways of knowing at the center of their learning. This centering requires a repositioning of students’ cultural literacies at the core of instruction. Using multiliteracies and Critical Discourse Analysis frameworks, we analyze and share excerpts from conversations with three Black adolescent high school seniors as they composed and reflected upon authoring digital autobiographies for an assignment in their Black Literature class. These reflections illuminate how the students drew on culturally salient texts to share elements of themselves with their peer and teacher audience.

Published
2019-05-31
How to Cite
Beucher, B., & Seglem, R. (2019). Black Male Students Negotiate Ways of Knowing Themselves During Digital Storytelling. LEARNing Landscapes, 12(1), 47-62. https://doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v12i1.978