Lessons in disability : essays on teaching with young adult literature / edited by Jacob Stratman.
"Disability is a growing reality. According to the United States Census Bureau, approximately 57 million people--19 percent of the population--had a disability in 2010, more than half being reported as "severe." Interest in disability studies is also growing, in literature, film, art,...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: exploring disability through young adult literature / Jacob Stratman
- Disability, young adult literature and pedagogical strategies. The social construction of disabilities and differences: cultivating appreciation of diversity in an elementary classroom through critical reading, writing and reflection / Anne Katz
- A little piece of Evan: adolescent literature and the autism spectrum / Jeanne Dutton and Jennifer Miller
- Middle school adolescents developing critical stances around difference in young adolescent literature in literature circles / Jeanne Gilliam Fain and Lesley Craig-Unkefer
- Teaching and reading wonder and Marcelo in the real world with critical eyes / Abbye Meyer and Emily Wender
- (Re)defining disability with the Schneider Family Book Award and community engagement / Jacob Stratman
- Using YA literature that portrays disabilities as canonical companions / Janine J. Darragh
- Disability, young adult literature and literary theory. Beowulf and aesthetic nervousness: a multidimensional pedagogy / Darcy Mullen
- "So tough, so brave, the consummate survivor": war trauma and disability in the Harry Potter series / Marc Napolitano
- Deconstructing disability: the dragons and girls in Ursula K. Leguin's Earthsea and Merrie Haskell's Handbook for dragonslayers / Erin Wyble Newcomb
- "Without a word or sign": enmeshing deaf and gay identity in young adult literature / Angel Daniel Matos.