Abstract
This qualitative study examines how elementary students of Color develop and enact an abolitionist praxis as part of a Freedom Dreaming literacy unit. The analysis of focus-group interviews elucidates how, after learning about freedom dreaming and the abolition of prisons and police, students positioned historical anti-carceral activism as something occurring in the present and students leveraged their historical and contemporary understanding of anti-carceral activism to enact their own freedom dreaming toward abolishing carcerality within their school. Our findings reveal the transformative potential of centering freedom dreaming and the abolition of prisons and police in elementary literacy instruction.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 267-278 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Reading Teacher |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1 2025 |
Keywords
- English language arts
- critical literacy
- elementary education
- history education
- interdisciplinary literacy instruction
- prison & police abolition
- students of color
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