Stirring Up Justice

Adolescents Reading, Writing, and Changing the World

Bibliographic Data

ID5814048
AuthorsJessica Singer (University of California, Santa Barbara), Ruth Shagoury (Lewis & Clark College)
Year2005
Volume49
Issue4
Pages318-339
Publication date2005-11-30
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1081-3004 • E-ISSN: 1936-2706
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1598/jaal.49.4.5
OpenAlexW1981621740
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited8

Teaching a diverse population of adolescents to be writers, readers, and active citizens requires fundamental changes in curriculum development, teaching strategies, and student roles in the classroom. In this article, two educators report on their collaboration in an urban high school in Portland, Oregon, USA, to create a classroom where students of diverse backgrounds learned to ask critical questions, to support one another, and to work toward positive social change. Curriculum and teaching in this classroom were choreographed around one central theme: social activism. The authors designed a project in which students worked toward creating positive social change. By sharing their individual projects as they prepared them in and out of class, students learned that activism is not a solo process and that influencing change grows with support and camaraderie. Using a range of literacy activities, including reading biographies of activists, creating gallery displays, writing essays, revising written work, interviewing activists, and teaching other class members, the students learned the power of using their literacy to make changes in the world

Theme (computing · Digital Storytelling and Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Literacy, Media, and Education

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