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Aikens, Curtis G., Sr. – Online Submission, 2013
It is not what one has in life; rather, what is left as the legacy. Personally I have received many awards. However, I feel so much better when I help people receive their own awards. Now, I want to use positive language and positive action to help motivate young people, encouraging them to achieve their own success, as well as foster success in…
Descriptors: Motivation, Teaching Methods, College Students, Focus Groups
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Goodman, Steven; Cocca, Carolyn – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
The low educational achievement of our poorest youth is fundamentally a political problem. Against a background of interconnected gaps in educational achievement, health and wealth, and political participation, this paper calls for a liberatory educational praxis that disrupts these reinforcing inequalities. This is a critical literacy grounded in…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Communities of Practice, Neoliberalism, Social Problems