Dr. Davena Jackson is an assistant professor of urban education in the Teaching & Learning Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her work focuses on English education, language, and literacy, building on over 20 years of experience as an English Language Arts (ELA) teacher. Through research-practice partnerships, she centers Blackness while challenging and disrupting anti-Blackness and white supremacy in secondary English classrooms.<\/p>\n
An interdisciplinary scholar and critical qualitative humanizing researcher, Dr. Jackson examines how teachers\u2019 justice-oriented commitments shape curricular and pedagogical choices that can lead to the transformation of English language arts classrooms. Her research and collaborations aim to contribute to the fields of language and literacy studies, English education, writing studies, and urban and Black education. Extending her commitment to justice in education, she also brings anti-racist, culturally responsive\/sustaining pedagogies, and humanizing frameworks into her teaching\u2014preparing educators to support their students\u2019 full humanity and reimagine English classrooms as transformative and liberatory spaces.<\/p>\n
Dr. Jackson is a 2023 National Academy of Education (NAEd) Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. She is also a member of the English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) Executive Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2022\u20132026. Further, Dr. Jackson is a faculty affiliate at the Center on the Ecology of Early Development<\/a> (CEED) at BU Wheelock and was a former research affiliate at the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University. Finally, her research has been published in the following journals: Reading Research Quarterly<\/em>, Research in the Teaching of English<\/em>, Journal of Literacy Research<\/em>, Teachers College Record<\/em>, and the International Review of Qualitative Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n Pronouns: she\/her<\/p>\nRecent News<\/h3>\n