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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"Young Adult Literature"”.
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Critical Literacy in Literature Instruction: Canonical vs. Young Adult Literature
… becoming increasingly heterogenous. However, ELA literature curriculums remain largely homogenous. This is due to the fact that ELA classrooms typically teach from the traditional literary canon and text exemplars that contain mainly white, male, heterosexual, Christian, and physically- and …
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Fantasies of citizenship: adolescence and temporality in young adult literature
… and disciplined as a potential citizen in young adult (YA) literature at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Engaging the field of children's and YA literature through queer and feminist theory, I analyze how the adolescent's proximity to, but inability to …
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#BlackBoyYALit: Seeing Black boys in 21st century young adult literature
… realistic fiction books published for young adults from 2000 to 2017. Educators and librarians’ value young adult literature not only for its role in developing adolescent literacy, but also for its ability to help teens to affirm their identities, observe how others deal with problems, …
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How to make a girl: female sexuality in young adult literature
Young Adult literature is an important source of information for young readers, and this genre makes a distinct contribution to the cultural and social construction of femininity and female sexuality in its pages. How to Make a Girl: Female Sexuality in Young Adult Literature analyzes …
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Girls coming of age: possibilites and potentials within young adult literature
… of power must be considered when analyzing young adult literature. Rebecca Seelinger-Trites further explains that adolescents (in society and in literature) are both powerful and disempowered. Coming of age presents an opportunity to grow toward adulthood and gain certain power and …
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Representations of Dyslexia Across Genres in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
… studies, genre studies, and children’s and young adult (YA) literature scholarship, this doctoral thesis centres the representations of dyslexia and dyslexics across genres. Commonly defined within the medical model of disability as the struggle to read, write, spell, and acquire literacy …
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Thinking Skills in Young Adult Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Thirty Novels
<p>This project provides teachers a method of teaching thinking skills to students through the use of specific adolescent novels. Thirty novels were selected with an attempt at an even distribution between male and female protagonists, first and third person point of view. A large number of novels …
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Inked in Narrative: Body Diversity, Tattooing, and its Representation in Young Adult Literature
… how tattooed protagonists are represented in young adult literature through a feminist lens in relation to character traits, physical appearance, personal relationships, and overall story arc. Its aim is to ascertain whether literature portraying tattooed protagonists reinforces social …
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"""La escuela es para estudiar"": Representations of Chicana schooling experiences in young adult literature"
… Chicana schooling experiences represented in young adult literature texts written by Chicana authors and explored how Chicanas grappled with their identity formation and current realities within their schooling experiences as depicted in selected texts. Guided by Chicana feminist perspectives, …
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A Girl's Best Friend? Implications of Friendship on Female Self-identity in Young Adult Literature
… By examining the works of five mass-market young adult authors, Ann Brashares, Meg Cabot, E. Lockhart, Cynthia Voigt, and Cecily von Ziegesar, evidence suggests that friends and peers influence a girl’s self-understanding and subjectivity through ritual, shared environment, language, …
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Remembering How to Listen: A Theoretical and Pedagogical Approach to Literacy, Adolescence, and Young Adult Literature
… and growing body of critical theory on young adult literature (YAL), and there are a multitude of publications dealing with how secondary English/ELA teachers incorporate YAL in their classroom. From a curricular perspective, however, YAL is still most often considered inferior to …
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A Story of the Young Adult Story of Children's and Young Adult Literature, Culture, and Media
This doctoral thesis, entitled A Story of the Young Adult Story of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Culture, and Media, is an anticolonial and decolonial analysis of childhoods and youth under colonial occupation in Puerto Rico at the turn of the twenty-first century. As a mixed genre …
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Street Queens and Clean Teens: Melodramatic Approaches to AIDS in Young Adult Literature and Popular Culture
… examines melodramatic approaches to AIDS in Young Adult literature and popular culture in the United States from the mid-1980s to the present day: tear-jerking, over-the-top depictions of sexuality, death, and oppression. The YA novel has traditionally been derided as a literary form because …
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Literary art as experience: teaching young adult literature, moral inquiry, and the personal journey toward meaning
Because we all read and understand what we read in different ways, understanding the role of personal experience is vital to the process of making meaning. Yet current educational practice devalues the significance of individuality and personal experience in the classroom. This is due, in part, to …
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Mothers, Madness, and Morality: A Care Ethics Approach to Mad Mother Characters in Contemporary Young Adult Literature
Every protagonist in young adult (YA) literature has a mother, whether they are loving, supportive, absent, dead or institutionalised. In the background of adolescent’s stories, a mother character’s neglect, selfishness, death, or other absence often serves the narrative function of enabling the …
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Using Young Adult Literature and Literary Theory to Teach Middle School Students How to Read Through Critical Lenses
… and, if they are aware, rely solely on classic literature when teaching critical literacy. Research shows students are responding to young adult literature (YAL) therefore a more effective approach when teaching critical literacy would be to introduce YAL first and then use it as a bridge into …
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In-Group, Out-Group, or All of the Above: The Advantages of Young Adult Literature for Empathic and Cognitive Engagement with Minority Protagonists
… culture adolescent reader would use empathy with young adult novels featuring minority protagonists – that is, protagonists who are disabled, who are LGBT+, or who are of a minority race or ethnicity. In particular, this thesis focuses on the psychology theory of in-group and out-group …
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Examining the curricular and pedagogical challenges and possibilities of post-colonial young adult literature: a narrative inquiry of book clubs with pre-service teachers
… English teachers examined post-colonial young adult literature and explored the possibilities and challenges of using these texts in English Language Arts classrooms. The texts selected for the study focus on young protagonists of color living outside the cultural context of the U.S. …
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