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Biography

Amy Walker is an assistant professor in middle childhood education and literacy at Kent State University in the School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies. Before receiving her PhD in literacy, culture and language education from Indiana University, she taught middle school English as a second language (ESL), language arts, and humanities in the Midwest, and ESL with resettling refugees in Eastern Europe. Her research disrupts monolithic assumptions of students and geographies by examining the literacies students practice through resistance and activism across community, social media, and school spaces.

As a teacher-educator and researcher, she helps educators and students understand how space and power interact with meaning making across learning spaces. Her current research examines how culturally responsive teaching and planning through community exploration and learning projects impacts preservice teachers. She is a recent honorable mention for the 2022 NCTE Linda Rief Voices From the Middle Award.

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Employment (2)

Kent State University: Kent, Ohio, US

2022-08-21 to present | Assistant Professor (School of Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Studies)
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Indiana University: Bloomington, Indiana, US

2019 to 2022 | Associate Instructor (School of Education)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Indiana University: Bloomington, Indiana, US

2017-08-17 to 2022-08-15 | Ph.D. (Literacy, Culture and Language Education)
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West Virginia University: Morgantown, West Virginia, US

2014 | M.A. (English Education)
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Professional activities (6)

National Council of Teachers of English: Urbana, Illinois, US

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International Literacy Association: Newark, DE, US

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American Educational Research Association: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

2023 to present | Co-Chair, Pedagogies Committee (Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group)
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American Educational Research Association: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

2022 to present | Social Media Director (Semiotics in Education: Signs, Meaning, and Multimodality)
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American Educational Research Association: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

2019 to present
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International Conference on Literacy, Culture, and Language Education: Bloomington, IN, US

2021 to 2022 | Member (Organizing Committee)
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Funding (2)

Using Action Research with Middle Childhood Preservice Teachers to Develop Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Centering Refugee Youth

2023 to 2024 | Grant
College of Education of Health and Human Services, Kent State University (Kent, OH, US)
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Youth Protest Literacies: Examining the Social and Spatial Practices of Students in Community Protest in the New Latino Diaspora

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Works (22)

“You can't ignore us”: Multiliteracies and disruption in youth activism

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
2024-10-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/jaal.1390
Contributors: Amy Walker
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Bending stories, disrupting boundaries: spatial reclamation as literacy practices beyond the rows and rules

Literacy
2024-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/lit.12376
Contributors: Amy Walker; Casey M. Pennington
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Advancing Middle Grade Research on Critical Pedagogy: Research Synthesis

Education Sciences
2024-09-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/educsci14090997
Contributors: Amy Walker; Bogum Yoon; Jennifer Pankowski
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Biliteracy, Playfulness and Performative Practices

International Encyclopedia of Education(Fourth Edition)
2023 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-818630-5.07009-3
Part of ISBN: 9780128186299
Contributors: Pengtong Qu; Amanda Deliman; Gustave J. Weltsek; Amy Walker; Carmen Liliana Medina
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La Voz Unida

The Middle of Somewhere: Rural Education Partnerships and Innovation
2023-07 | Book chapter
Contributors: Amy Walker
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Transformative Potential of Culturally Responsive Teaching: Examining Preservice Teachers’ Collaboration Practices Centering Refugee Youth

Education Sciences
2023-06-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/educsci13060621
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Restorying as Resistance

American Educational Research Association
2023-04 | Conference paper
Contributors: Amy Walker; Casey Pennington
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Using Critical Dialogue to Drive Feedback, Reflection, and Antiracist Action in Education

Voices From the Middle
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy Walker; Dianne Wellington
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Multimodality, translocality, and problematizing whiteness in literacy and language education

International Conference on Literacy, Culture, and Language Education
2022-10 | Lecture
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The dynamic role of educators as changemakers in advocacy of undocumented families

International Conference of Literacy, Culture and Language Education
2022-10 | Conference paper
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Toward Critical Multimodality

American Educational Research Association
2022-04 | Conference paper
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Black Lives Matter to Latinx Students

Journal of Research and Rural Education
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Amy Walker
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Rebuilding an antiracist academy one story, one syllabus at a time

Literacy Research Association
2021-12 | Conference paper
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Know Your Rights

National Rural Education Association Conference
2021-11 | Conference paper
Contributors: Amy Walker
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In these times, Black lives matter in rural spaces and schools

Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference
2021-10 | Conference paper
Contributors: Amy Walker
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Protest Signs and #SayTheirNames

American Educational Research Association
2021-04 | Conference paper
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Race, Rurality, and Resistance

American Educational Research Association
2021-04 | Conference paper
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Standing With My Students

American Educational Research Association
2021-04 | Conference paper
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A Sign of the Times

International Conference on Literacy, Culture, and Language Education
2020-10 | Conference paper
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Analyzing critical feedback practice as an antiracist pedagogy response

International Conference on Literacy, Culture, and Language Education
2020-10 | Conference paper
Contributors: Amy Walker
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Education Ethnography

Short guides in education research methodologies
2019 | Book chapter
Contributors: Amy Walker; Aslihan Guler; Yeoeun Park; Youngjoo Seo
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Understanding Social Justice Pedagogy Through Practice, Place, and the Personal

National Council for Teachers of English ELATE Conference
2019-07 | Conference paper
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