ERIC Number: EJ1245279
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 16
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Creating a Context for Girl of Color Ways of Knowing through Feminist of Color Playwriting
Player, Grace D.
LEARNing Landscapes, v12 n1 p223-238 Spr 2019
This article investigates how playwriting served three middle school Black girls within a larger practitioner research study seeking to better understand the literate practices of girls of color. It delves into the ways that playwriting provided the girls in an afterschool writing club opportunities to explore both their knowledge and ways of knowing, rooted in their cultural, gendered, and racialized experiences, and, in turn, share these with others, within an academic setting. It points to the necessity for creating writing pedagogies that celebrate experiential, cultural, emotional, and relational knowledge, using playwriting as an example.
Descriptors: Playwriting, Females, After School Programs, Middle School Students, Literacy, Minority Group Students, Gender Differences, Race, Writing (Composition), Clubs, Cultural Influences, Writing Instruction, Criticism, Feminism, Sexual Harassment, Black Dialects, African American Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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