Nadjwa E L Norton
Biographic Data
| ID | 184042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadjwa E L Norton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadjwa E L |
| FAMILY NAME | Norton |
| SIGNATURE | NORTON N E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | City College of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Young Children Manifest Spiritualities in Their Hip-Hop Writing
In this article, the author combines multicultural feminist critical theories with the voices of Black and Latina/Latino young spiritual children to extend culturally responsive teaching. The author illuminates how children use their hip-hop writing to construct themselves as people who communicate with God, choose spiritual content for their hip-hop songs, and attest to God’s abilities to help people. By helping in-service and preservice teacher…
Cutting Like a Razor: Female Children Address Sexism and Sexuality Through Poetry
This article examines data from a qualitative study of hip‐hop literacies in an after‐school community center program. Using a critical literacies theoretical framework, the article analyzes poems by two young Black and Latina females writing about sexuality and sexism. The findings illustrate the power of children’s poetry to disrupt sanctioned classroom writing, name inequities, and encourage social justice. Implications include bridging educat…
A Mighty River: Intersections of Spiritualities and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
This article seeks to expand the possibilities of support that children’s and young adult literature provides to activist‐oriented educators. Joining our voices to others who have made significant contributions to this emphasis, our work examines a too‐often‐silenced aspect of activism: its intersection with spirituality. Using an inclusive conceptualization of spirituality that emphasizes diversity and complexity, we present and engage with a ra…
Singing in the Spirit: Spiritual Practices Inside Public School Classrooms
This article examines how one spiritual, Black, male, first grade teacher and one spiritual, Black first grader name music as a spiritual practice. The data arise from a 1-year multicultural feminist critical narrative inquiry. The findings demonstrate how the participants' age, ethnicity, class, and spirituality shape music as a spiritual practice. The study details how spiritual people negotiate public schools, conceptualize diverse notions of …
Talking Spirituality with Family Members: Black and Latina/o Children Co-researcher Methodologies
Permitanme Hablar: Allow Me to Speak
This multicultural feminist critical narrative inquiry examines how one Dominican Spanish and English speaking poor immigrant first grader, Pam, utilizes her critical literacies to intervene against inequitable teaching practices and affirm her cultures. Implications for early childhood educators to develop culturally responsive practices that better support children are discussed.
Extending Learning Communities: New Technologies, Multiple Literacies, and Culture Blind Pedagogies
The Power of Black and Latina/o Counterstories: Urban Families and College-Going Processes
This article examines the diversity of practices utilized by working-class and poor black and Latina/o families to support their children's college-going processes. We employ the work of feminists, scholars of color, and critical ethnographers to critique the power undergirding the monolithic model establishing one entry point of parental involvement in urban schools. Then, drawing on data from a one-year critical ethnography of 27 black and Lati…
De)Constructing (In)Visible Parent/Guardian Consent Forms: Negotiating Power, Reflexivity, and the Collective Within Qualitative Research
This article focuses on the role of collective reflexivity within a year-long ethnographic study examining Black and Latino/Latina urban youth's negotiations of college going in and out of school contexts. Through collective reflexivity, the parent/guardian consent form is examined as a methodological tool of data collection and a written representational text that hinders and/or facilitates access to Latino/Latina youth as research participants.…
The Power of Black and Latina/o Counterstories: Urban Families and College-Going Processes
This article examines the diversity of practices utilized by working-class and poor black and Latina/o families to support their children's college-going processes. We employ the work of feminists, scholars of color, and critical ethnographers to critique the power undergirding the monolithic model establishing one entry point of parental involvement in urban schools. Then, drawing on data from a one-year critical ethnography of 27 black and Lati…
De)Constructing (In)Visible Parent/Guardian Consent Forms: Negotiating Power, Reflexivity, and the Collective Within Qualitative Research
This article focuses on the role of collective reflexivity within a year-long ethnographic study examining Black and Latino/Latina urban youth's negotiations of college going in and out of school contexts. Through collective reflexivity, the parent/guardian consent form is examined as a methodological tool of data collection and a written representational text that hinders and/or facilitates access to Latino/Latina youth as research participants.…
Singing in the Spirit: Spiritual Practices Inside Public School Classrooms
This article examines how one spiritual, Black, male, first grade teacher and one spiritual, Black first grader name music as a spiritual practice. The data arise from a 1-year multicultural feminist critical narrative inquiry. The findings demonstrate how the participants' age, ethnicity, class, and spirituality shape music as a spiritual practice. The study details how spiritual people negotiate public schools, conceptualize diverse notions of …
Talking Spirituality with Family Members: Black and Latina/o Children Co-researcher Methodologies
Young Children Manifest Spiritualities in Their Hip-Hop Writing
In this article, the author combines multicultural feminist critical theories with the voices of Black and Latina/Latino young spiritual children to extend culturally responsive teaching. The author illuminates how children use their hip-hop writing to construct themselves as people who communicate with God, choose spiritual content for their hip-hop songs, and attest to God’s abilities to help people. By helping in-service and preservice teacher…
Cutting Like a Razor: Female Children Address Sexism and Sexuality Through Poetry
This article examines data from a qualitative study of hip‐hop literacies in an after‐school community center program. Using a critical literacies theoretical framework, the article analyzes poems by two young Black and Latina females writing about sexuality and sexism. The findings illustrate the power of children’s poetry to disrupt sanctioned classroom writing, name inequities, and encourage social justice. Implications include bridging educat…
A Mighty River: Intersections of Spiritualities and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
This article seeks to expand the possibilities of support that children’s and young adult literature provides to activist‐oriented educators. Joining our voices to others who have made significant contributions to this emphasis, our work examines a too‐often‐silenced aspect of activism: its intersection with spirituality. Using an inclusive conceptualization of spirituality that emphasizes diversity and complexity, we present and engage with a ra…
Extending Learning Communities: New Technologies, Multiple Literacies, and Culture Blind Pedagogies
Extending Learning Communities: New Technologies, Multiple Literacies, and Culture Blind Pedagogies
The Power of Black and Latina/o Counterstories: Urban Families and College-Going Processes
This article examines the diversity of practices utilized by working-class and poor black and Latina/o families to support their children's college-going processes. We employ the work of feminists, scholars of color, and critical ethnographers to critique the power undergirding the monolithic model establishing one entry point of parental involvement in urban schools. Then, drawing on data from a one-year critical ethnography of 27 black and Lati…
De)Constructing (In)Visible Parent/Guardian Consent Forms: Negotiating Power, Reflexivity, and the Collective Within Qualitative Research
This article focuses on the role of collective reflexivity within a year-long ethnographic study examining Black and Latino/Latina urban youth's negotiations of college going in and out of school contexts. Through collective reflexivity, the parent/guardian consent form is examined as a methodological tool of data collection and a written representational text that hinders and/or facilitates access to Latino/Latina youth as research participants.…
Permitanme Hablar: Allow Me to Speak
This multicultural feminist critical narrative inquiry examines how one Dominican Spanish and English speaking poor immigrant first grader, Pam, utilizes her critical literacies to intervene against inequitable teaching practices and affirm her cultures. Implications for early childhood educators to develop culturally responsive practices that better support children are discussed.
Talking Spirituality with Family Members: Black and Latina/o Children Co-researcher Methodologies
Singing in the Spirit: Spiritual Practices Inside Public School Classrooms
This article examines how one spiritual, Black, male, first grade teacher and one spiritual, Black first grader name music as a spiritual practice. The data arise from a 1-year multicultural feminist critical narrative inquiry. The findings demonstrate how the participants' age, ethnicity, class, and spirituality shape music as a spiritual practice. The study details how spiritual people negotiate public schools, conceptualize diverse notions of …
Cutting Like a Razor: Female Children Address Sexism and Sexuality Through Poetry
This article examines data from a qualitative study of hip‐hop literacies in an after‐school community center program. Using a critical literacies theoretical framework, the article analyzes poems by two young Black and Latina females writing about sexuality and sexism. The findings illustrate the power of children’s poetry to disrupt sanctioned classroom writing, name inequities, and encourage social justice. Implications include bridging educat…
A Mighty River: Intersections of Spiritualities and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
This article seeks to expand the possibilities of support that children’s and young adult literature provides to activist‐oriented educators. Joining our voices to others who have made significant contributions to this emphasis, our work examines a too‐often‐silenced aspect of activism: its intersection with spirituality. Using an inclusive conceptualization of spirituality that emphasizes diversity and complexity, we present and engage with a ra…
Young Children Manifest Spiritualities in Their Hip-Hop Writing
In this article, the author combines multicultural feminist critical theories with the voices of Black and Latina/Latino young spiritual children to extend culturally responsive teaching. The author illuminates how children use their hip-hop writing to construct themselves as people who communicate with God, choose spiritual content for their hip-hop songs, and attest to God’s abilities to help people. By helping in-service and preservice teacher…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Spirituality (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works)