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From: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas <ebonyt_at_gse.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:06:16 -0500
Hi Debbie and all,
Another great resource for sex and sexuality in today's YA lit is Dr. Antero Garcia's 2013 book, CRITICAL FOUNDATIONS IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: Challenging Genres from Sense Publishers. It's one of my current course textbooks -- Dr. Garcia very generously joined us via Skype earlier this afternoon for a conversation so inspiring that we will invite him back later in the semester. His is the kind of textbook for YA lit I've been looking for many years, for I'm not really a fan of teaching children's or young adult literature courses by walking students through genres. He raises many of the concerns that I brought with me into the field after nearly a decade of teaching and mentoring today's teens.
Here's a link: https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/critical-literacy-teaching-series-challenging-authors-and-genres/critical-foundations-in-young-adult-literature/
There is an entire chapter in CRITICAL FOUNDATIONS dedicated to gender, sexuality, and identity construction. I have invited Dr. Garcia to join CCBC-Net in order to read and participate in this month's discussion. He is a professor at Colorado State University.
Another great resource for conversations about difference is the work of Megan Boler and Michalinos Zembylas on the pedagogies of discomfort. They talk about the emotional terrain of social justice and understanding difference:
"To engage in critical inquiry often means asking students to radically reevaluate their world views. This process can incur feelings of anger, grief, disappointment, and resistance, but the process also offers students new windows on the world: to develop the capacity for critical inquiry regarding the production and construction of differences gives people a tool that will be useful over their lifetime. In short, this pedagogy of discomfort requires not only cognitive but emotional labor."
Beyond recommending Dr. Garcia's book and Boler & Zembylas' research as critical resources, I hope to also see over the next month's discussion talk about depictions of gender and especially orientation in picture books. I'm hoping to expand my library in this area.
Best,
Ebony
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:06:16 -0500
Hi Debbie and all,
Another great resource for sex and sexuality in today's YA lit is Dr. Antero Garcia's 2013 book, CRITICAL FOUNDATIONS IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: Challenging Genres from Sense Publishers. It's one of my current course textbooks -- Dr. Garcia very generously joined us via Skype earlier this afternoon for a conversation so inspiring that we will invite him back later in the semester. His is the kind of textbook for YA lit I've been looking for many years, for I'm not really a fan of teaching children's or young adult literature courses by walking students through genres. He raises many of the concerns that I brought with me into the field after nearly a decade of teaching and mentoring today's teens.
Here's a link: https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/critical-literacy-teaching-series-challenging-authors-and-genres/critical-foundations-in-young-adult-literature/
There is an entire chapter in CRITICAL FOUNDATIONS dedicated to gender, sexuality, and identity construction. I have invited Dr. Garcia to join CCBC-Net in order to read and participate in this month's discussion. He is a professor at Colorado State University.
Another great resource for conversations about difference is the work of Megan Boler and Michalinos Zembylas on the pedagogies of discomfort. They talk about the emotional terrain of social justice and understanding difference:
"To engage in critical inquiry often means asking students to radically reevaluate their world views. This process can incur feelings of anger, grief, disappointment, and resistance, but the process also offers students new windows on the world: to develop the capacity for critical inquiry regarding the production and construction of differences gives people a tool that will be useful over their lifetime. In short, this pedagogy of discomfort requires not only cognitive but emotional labor."
Beyond recommending Dr. Garcia's book and Boler & Zembylas' research as critical resources, I hope to also see over the next month's discussion talk about depictions of gender and especially orientation in picture books. I'm hoping to expand my library in this area.
Best,
Ebony
-- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Reading/Writing/Literacy Division Graduate School of Education University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6216 Office: (215) 898-9309 Fax: (215) 573-2109 Email: ebonyt_at_gse.upenn.edu Website: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/thomas "If I do not love the world--if I do not love life--if I do not love people--I cannot enter into dialogue." --Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed ==== CCBC-Net Use ==== You are currently subscribed to ccbc-net as: ccbc-archive_at_post.education.wisc.edu. To post to the list, send message to... ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu To receive messages in digest format, send a blank message to... digest-ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu To unsubscribe, send a blank message to... leave-ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu ==== CCBC-Net Archives ==== The CCBC-Net archives are available to all CCBC-Net listserv members. The archives are organized by month and year. A list of discussion topics (including month/year) is available at... http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ccbcnet/archives.asp To access the archives, go to... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/ccbc-net ...and enter the following when prompted... username: ccbc-net password: Look4PostsReceived on Tue 04 Mar 2014 02:06:35 PM CST
