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Stories as theories: co-building critical and humanizing literacies’ spaces with Adivasi (indigenous) and De-notified tribal (DNT) youth in central India

Sinha, Shuchi

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Title
Stories as theories: co-building critical and humanizing literacies’ spaces with Adivasi (indigenous) and De-notified tribal (DNT) youth in central India
Author(s)
Sinha, Shuchi
Issue Date
2025-12-03
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Willis, Arlette Ingram
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Willis, Arlette Ingram
Committee Member(s)
  • Dyson, Anne Haas
  • Prior, Paul A
  • McCarthy, Cameron
Department of Study
Curriculum and Instruction
Discipline
Curriculum and Instruction
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Critical Indigenous Pedagogy, Writing Research, Denotified Tribal and Indigenous Youth, Critical and Sociocultural Literacy
Abstract
Situated in central India, this project hoped to understand the processes and experiences involved in co-building with student participants, a critical, humanizing, and decolonizing literacies’ classroom space, where Adivasi and De-notified Tribal (DNT) youths reclaim their spaces for counterstorying, especially in environments where their voices and agencies are overbearingly marginalized. This work involves critical ethnography, humanizing practitioner-research, and sociocultural methods of understanding youth compositions. Through using mentor texts of several authors who have disrupted marginalisation, locally created and relevant literary artifacts, and various critical writing activities, this classroom worked with the youth in exploring their everyday lived experiences, and with them asserting their voices and desires in this world. In building upon the existing work in India, this research hopes to contribute to nuanced and situated narratives about Adivasi and DNT youths’ lives, through a critical celebration of their own voices in counterstorying.
Graduation Semester
2025-12
Type of Resource
Thesis
Handle URL
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/132793
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Copyright 2025 Shuchi Sinha

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