Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
Volume 58, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 230-241

Seeking asylum: Adolescents explore the crossroads of human rights education and cosmopolitan critical literacy (Article)

Dunkerly-Bean J.* , Bean T. , Alnajjar K.
  • a Department of Literacy, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
  • b Department of Literacy, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
  • c University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore middle school (grade 6-8) students' understanding and interpretation of human rights issues with local and global implications as they engaged in the process of creating a film after reading print and multimedia texts and participating in human rights education activities. As the students explored issues related to local/global human rights from a cosmopolitan critical literacy perspective, their understanding of the interrelatedness of these issues became more complex prompting advocacy efforts. Free author podcast © 2014 International Reading Association.

Author Keywords

Critical pedagogy Critical literacy New literacies Adolescent/young adult literature Instructional strategies, teaching strategies Formative experiments, design experiments Adolescence

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84912530304&doi=10.1002%2fjaal.349&partnerID=40&md5=31a251d28773e84496ca8bc74048a714
DOI: 10.1002/jaal.349
ISSN: 10813004
Cited by: 6
Original Language: English