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“Shut my mouth wide open”: Realistic fiction and social action

Cynthia A. Tyson Assistant professor of education, The Ohio State University
Pages 155-159 | Published online: 05 Nov 2009

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Mariana Souto-Manning & Alison Lanza. (2019) Pedagogical Third Spaces: Inclusion and Re-Presentation of LGBTQ Communities in and through Teaching as a Matter of Justice. Theory Into Practice 58:1, pages 39-50.
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Mary Ellen Oslick. (2012) Boys and Criminal Justice in Young Adolescent Fiction. New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship 18:1, pages 1-10.
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Claire Sinnema, Alison Sewell & Andrea Milligan. (2011) Evidence-informed collaborative inquiry for improving teaching and learning. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education 39:3, pages 247-261.
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Jeane Copenhaver-Johnson. (2007) Rolling Back Advances in Multicultural Education: No Child Left Behind and “Highly Qualified Teachers”. Multicultural Perspectives 9:4, pages 40-47.
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CynthiaA. Tyson. (2002) “Get Up Offa That Thing”: African American Middle School Students Respond to Literature to Develop a Framework for Understanding Social Action. Theory & Research in Social Education 30:1, pages 42-65.
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April M. Sanders, Laura Isbell & Kathryn Dixon. 2020. Incorporating LGBTQ+ Identities in K-12 Curriculum and Policy. Incorporating LGBTQ+ Identities in K-12 Curriculum and Policy 198 222 .
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Bessie P Dernikos. (2018) ‘It’s like you don’t want to read it again’: Exploring affects, trauma and ‘willful’ literacies. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, pages 146879841875618.
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Kathleen F. Clark. (2017) Investigating the Effects of Culturally Relevant Texts on African American Struggling Readers’ Progress. Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 119:5, pages 1-30.
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Pearl E. Stewart & Gwendolyn Parker Ames. (2014) Using Culturally Affirming, Thematically Appropriate Bibliotherapy to Cope with Trauma. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma 7:4, pages 227-236.
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Terry Husband. (2014) Increasing Reading Engagement in African American Boys. Multicultural Learning and Teaching 9:2, pages 157-170.
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Kelly Wissman. (2008) “Spinning Themselves into Poetry”: Images of Urban Adolescent Writers in Two Novels for Young Adults. Children's Literature in Education 40:2, pages 149-167.
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Erika Swarts Gray. (2011) The Importance of Visibility: Students' and Teachers' Criteria for Selecting African American Literature. The Reading Teacher 62:6, pages 472-481.
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Edward H. Behrman. (2006) Teaching About Language, Power, and Text: A Review of Classroom Practices That Support Critical Literacy. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 49:6, pages 490-498.
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