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- Title
"Talking Walls": Presenting a Case for Social Justice Poetry in Literacy Education.
- Authors
Ciardiello, A. Vincent
- Abstract
The article discusses how reading and writing social justice poetry in literacy learning can give students a voice in democratic citizenship. This teaching strategy is explored through an event in which poetry was used to demonstrate how young Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century protested their incarceration at the Angel Island detention center in San Francisco Bay, California using poetry. This is used as a model for implementing poetry of social justice into the childhood literacy curriculum. The characteristics and guidelines for reading and writing social justice poetry are discussed.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; POETRY studies in elementary education; POETRY &; children; SOCIAL justice; CHINESE immigrants' writings; ANGEL Island Immigration Station (Calif.)
- Publication
Reading Teacher, 2010, Vol 63, Issue 6, p464
- ISSN
0034-0561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/RT.63.6.3