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Hays, Alice – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation investigates the impact reading Young Adult Literature (YAL) has on students' empathetic responses as well as their capacity to take action regarding a social justice issue chosen by the student. Drawing on data from a 10th grade honors classroom at a Title 1 school in the Southwest, this ethnographic case study investigates how…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Empathy, Student Behavior, Student Attitudes
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Shieh, Eric – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2016
In this article, I document a series of pedagogical responses in my high school instrumental music classroom following the events of Eric Garner's murder in New York City. Foregrounding traditions of black radical politics and aesthetics originating with the Black Power Movement in the 1960s, I explore their implications for classroom practice in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 10, African Americans, Activism