What is a Transformative Justice Approach to Literacy Education?

By Jacob Steiss

In “A Transformative Justice Approach to Literacy Education,” Dr. Masiha T. Winn describes how teachers can use “restorative justice as a lens through which to view their roles and responsibilities to students.” She identifies key questions to guide instruction through a restorative justice lens and outlines multiple levels of inquiry for students to examine the intersections of history, justice, race, and language in their lives. This approach to education creates a space for youth to develop and express literate identities while critiquing and speaking back to social, institutional, and political forces affecting their communities.

​“A restorative justice English education seeks to create and sustain writing, reading, thinking, and action-oriented communities in which children, youths, and educators can cultivate purposeful literate identities and trajectories.”

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