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Youth spoken word poetry groups are on the rise in the United
States, offering safe spaces for young people to write and perform.
These diverse groups encourage members to share their lived
experiences, decry injustices, and imagine a better future. At a
time when students may find writing in school alienating and
formulaic, composing in these poetry groups can be refreshingly
relevant and exciting. Listen to the Poet investigates two Arizona
spoken word poetry groups - a community group and a high school
club - that are both part of the same youth organization. Exploring
the writing lives and poetry of several members, Wendy R. Williams
takes readers inside a writing workshop and poetry slam and reveals
that schools have much to learn about writing, performance,
community, and authorship from groups like these and from youth
writers themselves.
This essential resource helps educators tackle the most
common and challenging dilemmas that
arise in today’s classroom—such as diversity,
privilege, and intersectionality. This book examines
common challenges that arise for educators
teaching social justice and diversity-related courses and
offers best practices for addressing them.
Contributors cover issues such as the many roles
instructors play, inside and outside of college and
university classrooms, for example, in handling
personal threats, responsibly incorporating current events related
to social justice into classroom discussion, navigating one's own
stigmatized or privileged identities, dealing with bias
in teaching evaluations, and engaging in self-care.
The authors' backgrounds offer unique perspectives from
which to approach such complex subject
matter; several contributors
are feminist or intersectional
scholars with the experience and expertise to address
the pedagogical dilemmas that often arise in teaching social
justice. Many of the issues discussed arise from the
authors' own experiences as teachers in the current
social climate; however, they also are verified by research on
quality teaching in general and teaching about diversity
specifically.Â
Youth spoken word poetry groups are on the rise in the United
States, offering safe spaces for young people to write and perform.
These diverse groups encourage members to share their lived
experiences, decry injustices, and imagine a better future. At a
time when students may find writing in school alienating and
formulaic, composing in these poetry groups can be refreshingly
relevant and exciting. Listen to the Poet investigates two Arizona
spoken word poetry groups - a community group and a high school
club - that are both part of the same youth organization. Exploring
the writing lives and poetry of several members, Wendy R. Williams
takes readers inside a writing workshop and poetry slam and reveals
that schools have much to learn about writing, performance,
community, and authorship from groups like these and from youth
writers themselves.
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