Marginal Syllabus (April)—Cultivating Urban Literacies on Chicago’s South Side Through a Pedagogy of Spatial Justice

View the author discussion of our April Marginal Syllabus reading that highlights a middle school teacher’s approach to teaching through a pedagogy of spatial justice. In a piece written for Voices from the Middle, authors Andrea Vaughan, Rebecca Woodard, Nathan C. Phillips, and Kara Taylor, describe the way Taylor and her class of middle school students studied the city around them, critiqued deficit narratives about their neighborhood, and developed urban literacies to advocate for food justice.

Guests

• Betina Hsieh, Associate Professor at Cal State Long Beach
• Nathan C. Phillips, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Christopher Rogers, Doctoral Student at the University of Pennsylvania
• Kara Taylor, Assistant Professor at Indiana University
• Andrea Vaughan, Doctoral Student at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Rebecca Woodard, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Joe Dillon, Co-Founder, Marginal Syllabus; Teacher, Rangeview High School in Aurora Public Schools in Colorado; Denver Writing Project Teacher-Consultant
• Remi Kalir, Co-Founder, Marginal Syllabus; Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development

Related Links

• 2018-2019 Marginal Syllabus