Korina Jocson

Korina Jocson is a cross-disciplinary scholar in social justice education. Central to her work are arts-informed sociocultural approaches that examine youth literacies and issues of equity, access, and inclusion particularly among historically marginalized youth. Recent studies have focused on the intersection of literacies and new media, inclusive of information and communication technologies, as a way to understand and enable culturally responsive pedagogies across educational settings. Jocson draws on qualitative design-based inquiry through school-community connections in urban education. For over a decade, Jocson has collaborated with educators and cultural workers to expand pedagogical possibilities in support of youth's academic, career, and life trajectories. She is the author of Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out of Schools (Peter Lang, 2008) and editor of Cultural Transformations: Youth and Pedagogies of Possibility (Harvard Education Press, 2013). Currently, she is completing a book manuscript on youth media to be published by University of Minnesota Press. Other publications have appeared (or will appear) in a number of scholarly journals such as Curriculum Inquiry, Teachers College Record, Daedalus, Pedagogies, and Urban Review. She is an active member of the American Educational Research Association and serves on the Affirmative Action Council (Division G: Social Contexts of Education). Jocson received her Ph.D. in Education in the area of language, literacy, and culture at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Education.