Reading for Action
eBook - PDF

Reading for Action

Engaging Youth in Social Justice through Young Adult Literature

  1. 220 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reading for Action

Engaging Youth in Social Justice through Young Adult Literature

About this book

This book illustrates how teachers can draw upon young adult literature to facilitate students' social action. Each chapter centers on one novel that represents a contemporary topic including police brutality, women's rights, ecojustice, 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. They then offer 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. In addition to methods for scaffolding students' analysis of texts and topics, authors also offer a plethora of additional resources such as documentaries, canonical companions for study, connected music, and supplementary lesson plans.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 Bullying
  7. 2 Global Poverty
  8. 3 Mental Health
  9. 4 The Gender Spectrum
  10. 5 Human Trafficking
  11. 6 Refugee Crisis
  12. 7 Women’s Rights
  13. 8 Social Class Disparities in the United States
  14. 9 Police Brutality
  15. 10 Immigration Reform
  16. 11 Sexual Orientations and Stigmas
  17. 12 Environmental Protection and Ecojustice
  18. Conclusion
  19. Index
  20. About the Authors