A Book That Bleeds: An Unlikely Textual Resource

Abstract

This forum reviews a mix of resources (written texts, graphic novels, documentaries, and mixed‐media pieces) to inform pedagogy and related educational practices that foreground representations of youths and their literacy practices within and outside of school.

Reconciliation Through Education: A Review of Achieving Indigenous Student Success: A Guide for Secondary Classrooms

“…A s long-time readers of this column, we have been encouraged to find Indigenous texts among the professional resources in JAAL's Text & Resource Review Forum (see, e.g., Blasingame et al, 2009;Ungemah, 2017), along with several feature articles that challenge what many Indigenous scholars have argued is the dominant-culture colonial narrative that defines mainstream education. As articulated by Mendoza (2018), mainstream literacy curricula need to be decolonized to recognize and validate Indigenous students' nondominant experiences and funds of knowledge.…”