Illuminating Golden Threads

2022 ◽  
pp. 332-350
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Laura Yomantas
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
General Education ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
Learning Conditions ◽  
Critical Hope ◽  
Guiding Questions

Pedagogical creativity can function as a vehicle to facilitate connection, restore humanity, and nurture critical hope in the classroom and beyond. Pedagogical creativity is essential and urgent as the confluence of the pandemic, civil unrest, and online learning have created dehumanized, unprecedented learning conditions. This chapter details an undergraduate general education course that leveraged contemporary young adult literature for cultural reformation and to promote social justice. This chapter provides examples of students enacting creativity and social imagination and concludes with a discussion of creativity in connection to this chapter's guiding questions.

scholarly journals Batteries, Big Red, and Busses: Using Critical Theory to Read for Social Class in Eleanor & Park

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Ashley Boyd ◽  
Summer Pennell
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Untapped Resource

In this article, the authors posit the avenue of young adult literature as an untapped resource for cultivating students’ knowledge of social theories and their recognition of societal inequities. Combining specific perspectives of social justice education and young adult literature can be a rich and engaging experience for students, as these contemporary texts afford for multiple layers of analysis.

Teaching Social Justice through Young Adult Literature

2001 ◽  
Vol 90 (6) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline N. Glasgow
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature

scholarly journals Heeding the Call for Social Justice: How a CPED Ed.D. Program Illuminates the Instructional Intersection Between COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter Movement

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Nancy Nasr
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Teachable Moments ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Impact

The intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic and the BLM movement led to a historic moment for American society. Illness, death, and civil unrest provided a shared historical experience for all Americans, and provided an opportunity for educators to capitalize on the multitude of teachable moments these historical events provided. For educators, like myself, who were the product of CPED Ed.D. programs that emphasized social justice in education, the historical events of COVID-19 and the BLM movement were immediately recognized as an opportunity to bring social justice to the forefront in the online classroom. The purpose of this manuscript is to reflect on the impact that my CPED Ed.D. experience had on my awareness of social justice in education and how this awareness translates to online learning opportunities in light of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide students with experiences that emphasize the need to understand and overcome social injustices, through science.

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