Danielle Filipiak’s research while affiliated with University of Connecticut and other places

... It points to the importance of the affective dimensions of the social studies curricula. In my own work with educators and in that of many other researchers, we see how these facets of civic learning also come into play in English and science education settings (e.g., Filipiak et al., 2015;Worker et al., 2023). Some of the most powerful applications appear in language education settings (e.g., Arredondo, 2020); this dimension of civic learning calls out for fuller exploration. ...

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“It’s Going to Go Beyond These Walls”: Toward a More Expansive Vision of Civic Learning

... 311) of those in the case. The collaborative tenets maintained throughout the study, particularly with teachers driving the topics of PLCs and forefronting the realities of their students inside and outside of the classroom, were done with the intent to respect and amplify teachers' and coaches' voices, particularly urban district dual language educators, as the experts that they are and complement the case study by creating a context-dependent space of open exchange and reciprocal learning (Filipiak, 2018;Miles, 2015) . ...

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Teachers' Conceptualizations of Sociocultural Competence: A Case Study of a Spanish-English Two-way Immersion Dual Language Professional Learning Community

... When I commenced my first teaching appointment, I quickly worked to establish relationships with students from various cultural groups, holding space 8 for them to participate and express their music traditions (Filipiak 2020). As I prepared to engage more purposefully with the school's First Nations community, these experiences proved crucial. ...

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Reaching Out: Yarning, Sharing, and Learning with First Nations Artists through Social Media

... In the classroom, meanwhile, teachers serve as key socializing agents and literacy sponsors. This is interesting to consider in light of the intergenerational dimension of critical literacy practices, as scholars increasingly explore how conscientization emerges through a relational process across age cohorts [87][88][89]. There is some evidence from our qualitative data that strong teacher-student relationships support youth activist development, as teachers with deep knowledge of their students can recommend relevant texts and authors and provide access to formative opportunities at key developmental moments, as Brady's teacher did. ...

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“Through the Looking Glass”: The Transformative Power of Reading for Youth Activists

... Youth participatory action research and intergenerationality as critical college-going literacies: a case study Building on a robust legacy of youth-centered collaboratives and initiatives that center youth's voices and literacy activities (Cammarota and Fine, 2010;Caraballo et al., 2017;Filipiak et al., 2020;Irizarry, 2015;Watson and Marciano, 2015), youth-engaged research questions whose knowledge counts, destabilizing what we know of and what we have internalized as the roles of students and teachers in academic spaces. Therefore, when we disrupt and expand the role of youth voice to reimagine college-going literacies, we are also shifting the roles of teachers and administrators. ...

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Exploring (r)evolutionary college-going literacies with immigrant youth in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) seminar

... During an education and college advising session, two students were asked how they thought about their native identities and college, and they described battling against deficit orientations around native identity in educational admission policies. In doing so, they highlighted the ways that educational policies rooted in colonization and white supremacy (Brayboy, 2005), where dominant groups get to decide how one's native identity should show up and be enacted within the college-going process (Caraballo & Filipiak, 2020), can perpetuate harm. ...

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Identity Development and Educational Perspectives: The Indigenous Education Youth Collective

... We posit that this sense of engagement and participation, crucial to critical college-going literacies , may be achieved in community, cocurricular and dual enrollment opportunities that build with youth voices to meaningfully attend to Youth participatory action research students' diverse literacies and identities (Marciano and Vellanki, 2022;Filipiak and Caraballo, 2019;Yeom et al., 2021). In addition, while youth may participate in communitybased organizations for the opportunities to engage with the arts, service, academic enrichment and college access resources (Baldridge, 2019), these spaces also offer intergenerational sites of possibility to rethink and reimagine conventional expectations and assumptions about college readiness. ...

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Exploring (r)evolutionary college-going literacies with immigrant youth in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) seminar

... All of the exercises demand critical thinking from the pupils. Activity and learning [8] are connected through a process known as "metacognition," in which pupils consider their own learning experiences. But instructors hardly ever give credit for this kind of thinking. ...

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Role of activity-based learning and ChatGPT on students' performance in education

... Civically engaged BIPOC youth adeptly navigate sociocultural identity markers to address contemporary societal polarization, as evidenced by findings herein. Employing critical multiliteracies (Mirra, Morrell, & Filipiak, 2018), they actively participate in activism, allyship, and civic dreaming and imagination (Mirra, Coffey, & Englander, 2018) to envision alternative ways of life. These endeavors enable them to "express themselves creatively and civically" (Lyiscott et al., 2021, p. 4), especially through social media platforms. ...

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Teen Activism and Civic Participation: A Cross-Case Analysis