Teaching Social Justice Using Postcolonial Texts (eBook)

Encountering Pedagogies of Discomfort in Practice

Geraldine Balzer, Teresa Strong-Wilson, Anne Burke (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
147 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-34831-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores how teachers can re-examine their emotional investments in enacting dominant settler values through changing their text selection and teaching practices. Based on a longitudinal qualitative research study conducted by a national team of literacy scholars in collaboration with practicing literacy teachers at eight sites across Canada, the book investigates how groups of teachers, working collaboratively in inquiry groups, develop and implement curriculum to promote their own and their students’ understandings of social justice in postcolonial and settler spaces. In particular, the book highlights the rich and dynamic landscape of postcolonial authors, illustrators and texts, the development of culturally- sensitive curricula, and critical pedagogies possible in addressing contemporary and historical issues, both local and global.

This book is primarily of interest to literacy scholars, literacy instructors (teacher educators) in teacher education programs,educational leaders, practicing teachers from the K-12 spectrum, and school district staff and policy makers with responsibilities for or interests in the potential of literacy and literature engagement for social justice education. The book is also be of interest to postsecondary educators and teacher educators wishing to use literature in social justice, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive courses.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.7.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Sustainable Development Goals Series
• Reihe/Serie: Sustainable Development Goals Series
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 147 p. 11 illus., 10 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: decolonization education • Diversity and inclusion • English Language Arts pedagogies • Global Citizenship • Pedagogical Practices for Social Justice • Pedagogy of Discomfort • Postcolonial literature • Promoting Social Justice in Education • social justice teaching • Socially Just Education • Teacher Inquiry Groups • Transformative Dialogues and Pedagogies
• ISBN-10: 3-031-34831-1 / 3031348311
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-34831-0 / 9783031348310