Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice
- ISBN-10
- 0942961617
- ISBN-13
- 9780942961614
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-04-15
- Publisher
- Rethinking Schools
- Authors
- Linda Christensen, Dyan Watson
Description
"Rhythm and Resistance offers practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk back to injustice, and construct stronger literacy skils across content areas and grade levels-- from elementary school to graduate school. Rhythm and Resistance reclaims poetry as a necessary part of a larger vision of what it means to teach for justice." from cover.
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Other editions
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- 1990
- 241 pages
- Paperback
- Praeger
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