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Revealing the Human and the Writer: The Promise of a Humanizing Writing Pedagogy for Black Students

By National Writing Project
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In this CoLab, author Latrise P. Johnson is joined by colleagues Joe Dillon, Remi Kalir, and Hillary Walker to discuss her award-winning article “Revealing the Human and the Writer: The Promise of a Humanizing Writing Pedagogy for Black Students” co-written with Hannah Sullivan and published in Research in the Teaching of English in May 2020.

This article is the featured article for April 2021 in the LEARN: Marginal Syllabus and will be available throughout the month alongside a curated set of online annotations using Hypothes.is. Viewers are invited to watch the CoLab discussion, socially read the article alongside colleagues, and if interested, join the discussion.

LEARN is a collaborative project of the National Writing Project (NWP), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Marginal Syllabus team, with the support of Hypothes.is.

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