The Raciosemiotic Architecture Framework
The Raciosemiotic Architecture Framework for bi/multilingual learners encourages mindfulness and intentional teaching to achieve educational justice. With the growing awareness of inequalities in education and uneven allocation of resources for racialized students, there is a need for a framework that supports teachers to meet students’ needs in a way that is centered on love, dignity, compassion, and joy. Joy is the product of cultivating love, dignity, and compassion in the classroom. This framework invites teachers to be transparent in their practice by acknowledging students’ identities in the classroom using the pedagogical holistic model of new literacies (multiliteracies and new literacies) and language and semiotics drawing from students’ race and culture. Race is an inclusive term representing all ethnicities. This work complements the ongoing research to support bi/multilingual students in the classroom, and it illustrates that it is possible to attend to racialized learners’ needs by adopting multiliteracies to inform teachers and educators in literacy classrooms to connect race to language and semiotics and thus center joy and dignity.