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Scaffolding Critical Questions: Learning to Read the World in a Middle School Civics Class in Mexico
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Direct linkGibson, Melissa Leigh – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2018
This article shares the case of a student-driven?investigation?into?social issues from an eighth-grade civics class at an American school in Mexico. Through vignettes about the teaching and learning process, the author argues that a focus on students' inquiry into their social contexts rather than on specific social justice content is a key…
Descriptors: Civics, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Critical Literacy, Social Justice
