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  1. Hello, everyone, This is Liz Green.
  2. Welcome to my video version of myself.
  3. Location and short autobiography as awake, married CIS gender female
  4. who is a mother and doctoral student.
  5. I recognize that being conscious of my own potential biases
  6. and place within educational and social systems, of which I
  7. am a part, is a fundamentally important piece of my
  8. research. I situate myself as an educator and as an
  9. advocate for Children with learning differences, specifically language based differences
  10. such as dyslexia and disk rafia.
  11. I consider myself to be a part of that community
  12. through my experiences navigating the disability community with my son
  13. and generally approach my research into reading and dyslexia from
  14. a social constructivist theoretical framework.
  15. If knowledge is actively constructed through experience with people, places
  16. and language, then it is those experiences that interests me.
  17. My professional experience teaching first generation language learners in a
  18. title one school in the South, as well as my
  19. personal experiences as a mother have greatly influenced my research
  20. back. These experiences have prompted a critical look at representation
  21. in Children's literature and teaching.
  22. In general, I've seen others immense power and Children's books
  23. to act as windows mirrors and doors to the world.
  24. And so I am asking these questions.
  25. Who writes the stories, who benefits from the stories and
  26. who is missing from the stories?
  27. Many educators, myself included, have presented literature two Children from
  28. a place of privilege without ever stopping to ask these
  29. questions. After Meyer said, Ask the right questions and then
  30. answer them with your life.
  31. They really love that, and I'm definitely trying, Thank you.