Identity, Criticality, and Advocacy in Young Adult Literature
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- ISBN 9781041124757
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Identity, Criticality, and Advocacy in Young Adult Literature explores teaching strategies for incorporating young adult literature (YAL) as a tool for developing identity, criticality, and advocacy both inside and outside English language arts (ELA) classrooms.
Censors are stripping young people of the power to read and learn about the world in ways relevant to them. To combat this, we share how teachers engage adolescents with young adult literature and address issues of identity, criticality, and advocacy. With teaching ideas and contributions from top scholars in young adult literature, each chapter of this book provides before-, during-, and after-reading strategies to teach in middle and secondary classrooms with specific young adult novels. The chapters focus on topics such as race and identity, technology and artificial intelligence, environmental and ecological issues, LGBTQIA+ history, mental health literacy, and more.
This is an essential resource for preservice teachers in teaching methods, young adult literature, reading and writing, and social justice education courses and is relevant to all teachers of middle and high school students.
Steffany Comfort Maher is an associate professor of English education and director of the IUS Writing Project at Indiana University Southeast. Her research interests include critical inquiry approaches to teaching literature, critical methods of teaching young adult literature, and critical youth studies. Prior to earning her doctorate, Dr. Maher taught middle and high school English and social studies for 12 years in Michigan.
Alice Hays is an associate professor and chair of the Teacher Education Department at California State University, Bakersfield. During her Ph.D. work, Dr. Hays taught English composition at the college level. Prior to that, Dr. Hays taught high school English for 19 years in Arizona.
