Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult Literature: Critical Perspectives and Conversations

ISBN-13: 9781138298583 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 244 str.

R. Joseph Rodriguez

Opis

In this book, Rodríguez uses theories of critical literacy and culturally responsive teaching to argue that our schools, and our culture, need sustaining and inclusive young adult (YA) literature/s to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse readers and all students.

Spis treści

Section I Literary Criticism and Literacy Education  1. Introduction: Inclusive Young Adult Literature  2. Scribal Identities and the Self-Affirmation of Adolescents  3. Gender and Sexuality in Young Adult Literature  4. Schooling and Education of Young Adult Characters  5. Teachers in the Young Adult Fiction of Bambara and Cisneros  Section II Conversations with Authors of Young Adult Literature  6. Jeff Anderson: "We Are Our Stories"  7. Matt de la Peña: "Giving Them Back the Literature"  8. Joe Jiménez: "The Difference between Thirst and Hunger"  9. Guadalupe Garcia McCall: "Books as Small Offerings"  10. Isabel Quintero: "There Is No Hiding from the Self"  11. Benjamin Alire Sáenz: "A Riot in the Heart"  12. Erika L. Sánchez: "A Right to Art"  13. End Points and Sign Posts  Appendix A: Young Adult Literature Cited in the Text

O autorze

R. Joseph Rodríguez is Assistant Professor of Literacy, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education in the Kremen School of Education and Human Development at California State University, Fresno, USA.