Lessons in disability
Subtitle: essays on teaching with young adult literature
By: edited by Jacob Stratman
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers; McFarland & Company
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780786499328; 9781476623085
Subjects: People with disabilities in literature; History and criticism; Children with disabilities in literature; Study and teaching; Young adult literature
Description: "Interest in disability studies is also growing, in literature, film, art, politics and religion.This collection of new essays fills a gap in scholarship between teachers and YAL scholars. The contributors offer textual analysis, best practices and numerous examples that enable teachers to expose students to dynamic characters who both reflect and contrast the reader's reality"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: exploring disability through young adult literature / Jacob Stratman; title: 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; title: A little piece of Evan: adolescent literature and the autism spectrum / Jeanne Dutton and  Jennifer Miller; title: Middle school adolescents developing critical stances around difference in young adolescent literature in literature circles / Jeanne Gilliam Fain and Lesley Craig-Unkefer; title: Teaching and reading wonder and Marcelo in the real world with critical eyes / Abbye Meyer and Emily Wender; title: (Re)defining disability with the Schneider Family Book Award and community engagement /  Jacob Stratman; title: Using YA literature that portrays disabilities as canonical companions / Janine J. Darragh; title: Disability, young adult literature and literary theory. Beowulf and aesthetic nervousness: a multidimensional pedagogy / Darcy Mullen; title: "So tough, so brave, the consummate survivor": war  trauma and disability in the Harry Potter series / Marc Napolitano; title: Deconstructing disability: the dragons and girls in  Ursula K. Leguin's Earthsea and Merrie Haskell's  Handbook for dragonslayers / Erin Wyble Newcomb; title: "Without a word or sign": enmeshing deaf and gay identity in young adult literature / Angel Daniel Matos.