Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces - Jody Polleck

Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces

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Buch | Hardcover
176 Seiten
2022
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6751-1 (ISBN)
97,25 inkl. MwSt
Offers research and theories grounded in culturally sustaining pedagogies and healing-centered engagements along with practical strategies for book club facilitators - from developing specific student-centered pedagogical approaches to embodying critical and humanizing dispositions.
Learn how to integrate book clubs into secondary school communities for transformation and inclusion so as to enhance and nurture students’ literacies along with their social and emotional development. Using her extensive experiences with culturally, neurologically, and linguistically diverse students, the author provides a rich resource that demonstrates how book clubs serve as critical places where adolescents can develop as readers while simultaneously working to build authentic relationships with their peers. Polleck offers research and theories grounded in culturally sustaining pedagogies and healing-centered engagements along with practical strategies for book club facilitators—from developing specific student-centered pedagogical approaches to embodying critical and humanizing dispositions.


Book Features:




Guidance based on the author’s 25 years of experience as a facilitator and researcher of book clubs.
A focus on encouraging meaningful participation, identity and community building, and social justice.
An approach that prioritizes collaboration among teachers, social workers, counselors, administrators, parents, and other school personnel.
Practical strategies that include facilitation suggestions, sample lesson plans, and reflective questioning techniques.
Engaging narratives that center the voices of students who have participated in book clubs.
An accompanying website with suggested reading lists, teaching materials, classroom activities, and more.

Jody Polleck is an associate professor and the program coordinator for literacy education at Hunter College, City University of New York. She also continues to work in NYC schools as both a literacy coach and teacher.

Contents


Acknowledgments xi


1. Transformation and Inclusivity: The Foundation for Student-Centered Book Clubs 1

What Has Been My Journey to Book Clubs? 3

What Are Book Clubs? 5

What Does It Mean to Be Transformative and Inclusive? 7

Why Do We Need Book Clubs? 8

What Are the Benefits of Book Clubs? 9

Who Are Book Clubs For? 10

What Are the Theories That Ground Book Clubs? 12

What’s Coming Up? 15


2. Getting Book Clubs Started Within Our School Communities 18

Who Can Start and Facilitate Book Clubs? 19

What Is the Purpose of Your Book Clubs and Who Will Participate? 21

Where and When Do We Meet? 21

Which Books Do We Use and How Do We Get Them? 23

How Can We Be More Intentional About the Books We Read? 28

How Do We Get Students to Join Book Clubs? 30

How Do We Build Community to Prepare Students for Classroom-Based Book Clubs? 30

How Do We Build Literacy Skills to Prepare Students for Classroom-Based Book Clubs? 31


3. Creating Student-Centered, Inclusive Spaces Through Culturally Sustaining and Emotionally Responsive Facilitative Practices 36

What Does It Mean to Be a Culturally Sustaining and Emotionally Responsive Facilitator? 38

What Happens During Our First Book Club Session? 45


4. Maintaining, Sustaining, and Assessing Book Club Conversations 55

What Are the Structures We Can Use to Maintain Book Clubs? 57

What Are the Rituals We Can Use to Sustain Our Book Clubs? 66

What Mini-Lessons Can We Use to Sustain Our Book Clubs? 68

How Can We Nurture Students’ Reading Outside of Book Club? 72

What Assessments Can We Use to Maintain and Sustain Student Progress? 74


5. Developing Literacies and Spaces for Emotional and Identity-Based Engagements 81

What Do We Mean By Literacy Development? 82

What Does It Mean to Engage in Emotional and Identity-Based Work? 86

How Can We Address Trauma Within Our Book Clubs? 93

How Do We Simultaneously Address Reading Development Along With Emotional and Identity-Based Work? 94

How Do We Integrate Writing Into Book Clubs? 101


6. Developing Students’ Social Awareness, Interpersonal Relationships, and Agency 104

How Can We Use Book Clubs to Develop Students’ Social Literacies? 106

How Can Book Clubs Center Social Awareness? 112

How Can Book Clubs Help Students Develop Relationships? 114

How Can We Use Book Clubs to Impact Students’ Sense of Agency? 121


7. Engaging With Youth Families and in Digital Spaces 129

How Can Book Clubs Be Inclusive of Our Students’ Families? 129

What Do Book Clubs Look Like in Digital Spaces? 133


Epilogue: Centering Joy in Book Club Spaces 138


References 143

Index 156

About the Author 164

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 235 mm
Gewicht 349 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
ISBN-10 0-8077-6751-4 / 0807767514
ISBN-13 978-0-8077-6751-1 / 9780807767511
Zustand Neuware
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