In Dialogue/ En Diálogo Volume III Call for Submissions 2026

Stories of Resistance: Teacher Activism, Critical Pedagogy, and Community Solidarity

Historias de resistencia: Activismo docente, pedagogías críticas y la solidaridad con la comunitaria

Volume 3

What stories of resistance emerge from teachers’ activist work, critical pedagogical practices, and solidarity with communities?
How do bi/multilingual educators enact resistance through teacher activism, critical pedagogy, and solidarity with communities?

Amid socio-political turmoil and uncertainty, we look to each other, nuestra comunidad, for support and solidarity. From the Eaton and Palisades fire in 2025 and the ICE raids throughout major cities across the country—Los Angeles,Chicago, NYC, and Minneapolis—we have witnessed the power of community solidarity to combat structural and institutional violence and oppression.

This issue seeks to center stories of resistance through teacher activism, critical pedagogy, and solidarity with communities. We aim to highlight where these collective efforts are forming and how they sustain transformative, justice-oriented practice:

Examples of relationships of solidarity may be found:

Between families–educators
Between families
Amongst teachers
Amongst staff
Amongst students
Between staff and teachers
Between teacher–students
Community activists and partners
School board leaders and constituents
Intergenerational relationships
In digital spaces (i.e., social media)
Nonprofit organizations

We call on contributors to share these stories of resistance (teacher activism, critical pedagogy, and communitysolidarity) through art, poetry, images, and/or narrative. We welcome contributions written in Spanish, English, y/o enuna manera bilingüe (i.e., translanguaging). We ask that the stories of resistance:

reflect on the process of relationship and solidarity building among diverse communities
reflect on how they are not only weathering attacks from institutional forces or from broader socio-political turmoil, but also pushing back, organizing, and advancing critical praxis and care.

We also invite you to consider questions such as:

What forms of resistance are gaining support in your context? What practices, relationships,approaches are working well to move justice-oriented work forward?
What stories are emerging from families and educators, teachers, and staff?
How do schools become sites for collective learning, resistance, reflection, and community care?
What kinds of organizing efforts are happening in your context that wouldn’t be possible

elsewhere?

How do communities push back against socio-political attacks?

For information on submissions, please visit the “For Authors” tab on our website:https://journals.calstate.edu/dialogue/information/authors

Submissions Due: Monday, July 15, 2026

To submit, go to: https://journals.calstate.edu/dialogue

Contact:

Luz Yadira Herrera, Nallely Arteaga, or Elexia Reyes McGovern,

Guest Co-Editors, College of Education, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Lherrera@csudh.edu , narteaga@csudh.edu & emcgovern@csudh.edu