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Enacting a body-focused curriculum with young girls through an activist approach: Leveraging the after-school space

Dr. Kelly C Johnston in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2020, with co-author(s) Dr. R Marttinen, George Mason University, S Flory, University of South Florida, and B Meza.

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“The Day You Begin”: Using children’s lived experiences as a tool for cultivating critical consciousness

Dr. Kelly C Johnston, published The Day You Begin: Using children’s lived experiences as a tool for cultivating critical consciousness in Multicultural literature in the content areas: Transforming K-12 classrooms into engaging, inviting, and socially conscious spaces.

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Affective literacies in the classroom

Dr. Kelly C Johnston, published Affective Literacies in the Classroom in Literacy Today magazine, a publication of the International Literacy Association, 2020.

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Assemblaging communities: Looking at how communities work for enacting critical literacies pedagogy in the classroom

Dr. Kelly C Johnston, published Assemblaging communities: Looking at how communities work for enacting critical literacies pedagogy in the classroom in English Teaching: Practice & Critique, Vol. 19, Issue 1, p. 121-135, 2020.

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Tapping into the Feeling Power: Considering the Affordances of the Affective Nature of Multimodal Literacies

Dr. Kelly C Johnston, published Tapping into the Feeling Power: Considering the Affordances of the Affective Nature of Multimodal Literacies in Language Arts, Vol. 97, Issue 3.

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Girls’ Experiences in a Positive Youth Development Sport Program: Developing a Participant-Centered Space

Dr. Kelly C Johnston, assistant professor, published Girls' Experiences in a Positive Youth Development Sport Program: Developing a Participant-Centered Space in Journal of Youth Development, Vol. 14, Issue 1, p. 93-111, with co-author(s) Risto Marttinen, George Mason University, and Ray Fredrick, Queens College, City University of New York.

Research Interest

Research Interests

Literacy in schools and communities

Integrating literacy pedagogy in alternative contexts and spaces

Critical literacies

Sociomaterial, sociocultural, and affective approaches to literacy engagement