Welcome

The Journal of Language & Literacy Education is a peer-reviewed, open access journal housed in the Department of Language & Literacy Education in the College of Education at The University of Georgia.

Since its inception in 2004, JoLLE has provided a space for scholars to engage readers in a broad spectrum of issues related to the field. As an online journal, we encourage submissions that incorporate multiple modes (e.g., photographs, artwork, video, and graphics).

Join us for the JoLLE 2022 Conference!

Decolonizing Language and Literacy Through Intercultural Citizenship Education

March 4-6, 2022
Athens, GA

Last year, the systematic targeting of minority groups at a time the world was reeling from the effects of COVID-19 prompted a need for solidarity, empowerment, and accountability within our educational community. In reaction to the sociopolitical challenges of 2020, the JoLLE 2021 conference was a forward-thinking response to the fear and tension palpable at that time when there was a need for solidarity, empowerment, and accountability within our educational community while the systemic injustice continuously targeted minoritized and marginalized groups. We ground the 2022 winter conference in the context of a continuing pandemic, and we invite students, educators, researchers, and policymakers to resume the previous conversation. 

The theme of the 2022 JoLLE@UGA Winter Conference, Decolonizing Language and Literacy through Intercultural Citizenship Education, is another attempt to re-evaluate and reconstruct the status-quo educational practices and research in language and literacy education that trivialize and harm marginalized communities within educational theory and practice (Macedo, 2019). The concept of “intercultural citizenship” emphasizes the engagement and possibility of acting in a multicultural community through the development of knowledge, skills, an awareness of other  perspectives, and a sense of the international community (Byram, 2008). Through Intercultural Citizenship Education, a framework for social action is provided to reconsider current values, beliefs, and stereotypes that ignore pluralism and disrespect intercultural exchanges within the field of language and literacy education (Byram & Wagner, 2017). We welcome proposals connecting research and practice that transformatively explore issues of diversity, justice, race, ethnicity, intercultural citizenship, and professional ethics in language and literacy education. The 2022 JoLLE@UGA Winter Conference will return to an in-person space for presenters and conference attendees to connect, communicate, and collaborate, and thus advancing people’s holistic excellence academically and professionally.

The 2022 JoLLE@UGA Winter Conference will be held on the UGA campus from March 4th-March 6th, 2022. We look forward to reading your work as we review proposals. Hope to see you at our conference!

Those interested can find information at: http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/conference/