Freedom and Justice for All: Exploring Black Lives Matter and the Significance of Civil Disobedience
Teaching younger students about racial injustice and social justice is a challenge in many classrooms, due to complexity of the issues discussed and a push to keep politics out of classrooms. Using a variety of books focused on racism and social justice, this vignette explores how a teacher empowers...
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2017-04-01
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| description | Teaching younger students about racial injustice and social justice is a challenge in many classrooms, due to complexity of the issues discussed and a push to keep politics out of classrooms. Using a variety of books focused on racism and social justice, this vignette explores how a teacher empowers students to take action through teaching a unit about civil disobedience and injustice based around the Black Lives Matter movement. The focus is to have students understand what these movements are and how they come to be, as well as encourage self-reflection and deeper connections to the texts being read. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a2762a6f38354803838e5b17d523ed3b2022-12-22T04:31:53ZengWorlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and LiteraturesWOW Stories2577-05512017-04-01V2717Freedom and Justice for All: Exploring Black Lives Matter and the Significance of Civil DisobedienceDesiree Cueto0Shannon Clowes1Western Washington University, Bellingham, WashingtonPeter Howell Elementary School in Tucson, ArizonaTeaching younger students about racial injustice and social justice is a challenge in many classrooms, due to complexity of the issues discussed and a push to keep politics out of classrooms. Using a variety of books focused on racism and social justice, this vignette explores how a teacher empowers students to take action through teaching a unit about civil disobedience and injustice based around the Black Lives Matter movement. The focus is to have students understand what these movements are and how they come to be, as well as encourage self-reflection and deeper connections to the texts being read.https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/stories/v5-i2/4/social justiceeducationteaching |
| spellingShingle | Desiree Cueto Shannon Clowes Freedom and Justice for All: Exploring Black Lives Matter and the Significance of Civil Disobedience WOW Stories social justice education teaching |
| title | Freedom and Justice for All: Exploring Black Lives Matter and the Significance of Civil Disobedience |
| title_full | Freedom and Justice for All: Exploring Black Lives Matter and the Significance of Civil Disobedience |
| title_fullStr | Freedom and Justice for All: Exploring Black Lives Matter and the Significance of Civil Disobedience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Freedom and Justice for All: Exploring Black Lives Matter and the Significance of Civil Disobedience |
| title_short | Freedom and Justice for All: Exploring Black Lives Matter and the Significance of Civil Disobedience |
| title_sort | freedom and justice for all exploring black lives matter and the significance of civil disobedience |
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