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A01=Janine J. Darragh
Author_Ashley S. Boyd
Author_Janine J. Darragh
Category=JNT
Category=JNU
Category=YPC
Civic literacies
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Social justice
Teaching strategies (English)
Product details
- ISBN 9781475866339
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 157 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book illustrates how middle level English language arts teachers can draw upon young adult literature to facilitate students’ understanding of issues of oppression and allow them opportunities for social action. Each chapter centers on one novel that represents a contemporary topic including the refugee crisis, Indigenous rights, trauma, and bullying. In each, authors provide pre-, during-, and after reading strategies for teaching that connect the social issues in the texts to students’ lives and to the world around them. Research, writing, and digital literacies are emphasized throughout. Authors also include topics for teaching at the intersections of the focal topic with other areas of social justice. Finally, they provide a multitude of avenues for student action, emphasizing the need to move readers from understanding and awareness to asserting their own agency and capacities to effect change in their local, national, and global communities. Additional resources are also included as extensions, such as documentaries, young adult literature companions for study, connected music, and supplementary lesson plans.
Ashley S. Boyd is an associate professor of English Education at Washington State University where she teaches courses on English methods, young adult literature, and critical theories and anti-oppressive pedagogies.
Janine J. Darragh is associate professor of literacy and English as a new language at the University of Idaho where she teaches courses in young adult literature, teaching students who are culturally and linguistically diverse, and secondary English teacher preparation.
