Using Poetry in Social Studies Classes to Teach about Cultural Diversity and Social Justice

McCall, Ava L.

doi:10.3200/tsss.95.4.172-176

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“…Teachers at both schools expose students to multiple perspectives through reading diverse literature and inviting guest lecturers who share their personal experiences and beliefs. At UPA, students are asked to write poems, diaries, and journals from different people's perspective (McCall, 2004). In Mr. Fernandez's social studies class, students wrote poems from the perspectives of Arab Americans after September 11th and parents of U.S. soldiers who were sent to Iraq.…”

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Toward a School-Wide Model of Teaching for Social Justice: An Examination of the Best Practices of Two Small Public Schools

Kraft¹

2007

Equity & Excellence in Education

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Toward a School-Wide Model of Teaching for Social Justice: An Examination of the Best Practices of Two Small Public Schools

Kraft¹

2007

Equity & Excellence in Education

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“…The work is in the curriculum and in the classrooms, in the universities and in the minds of pre-service teachers, as well as the minds of the academics that teach them. I have discussed poetry -not a new medium in teaching history, although usually either used as historical evidence or to teach empathy or cultural sensitivity (Furman, 2005;McCall, 2004) -as a tool that allows for a range of presence of subjectivities and thinking skills, including emotion, as well as more traditionally advocated historical thinking skills.…”

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Poetry as method in the history classroom: decolonising possibilities

Godsell

2019

Y&T

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Poetry can present historical material in a non-academic format. This format may be particularly important for students who are excluded from epistemic access (Morrow, 2007). This exclusion stems from many things, but ways of writing, ways of framing history, and whose voices and stories are heard are part of this exclusion. This article explores using poetry as a method of decolonising history teaching, primarily in teacher training classroom contexts. Poetry provides a unique combination of orality, personal perspective, artistic license, and historical storytelling. The form can also draw students into a lesson. As a device somewhat removed from students' ideas about what history is, poetry is an alternative way of investigating ideas of "truth", evidence, narrative, and perspective. It provides an entry point to historical topics, that can be supplemented through other texts and forms of evidence. Poetry also provides a voicing for sensitive topics, acknowledges and embraces complexity and pain. It could also remove the teacher as mediator, even if only for a moment. Additionally, it can open space for marginalised voices and stories. By drawing from local poems, especially by black womxn poets, race and gender are centred in the conversation in a visceral way. International poets open conversations about globally linked histories. Poets from different generations raise questions of continuity and change. All poems are open to examination through historical thinking skills. This article explores the tensions in decolonising the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) history Further Education and Training (FET)(Senior High School) curriculum and in using a creative medium such as poetry to do so.

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“…According to Stiles (1965) "poetry is truth wrapped in beauty". There are also several important studies which emphasize that poetry should be used in history education (Candan, 2003;Çenç en & Akç a Berk, 2014;Harrison & Holderith, 2003;Kenworthy, 1937;Köksal, 2010;McCall, 2004;Osborne, 1987;Öztaş, 2009;Wilson & Kahn, 2008).…”

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A Literary Genre in Value Education in History Courses: Poems

Öztaş

2018

JETS

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One of the objectives of education in schools is to acquire values. In this sense, history courses are among the important courses in which students can acquire values. Students can acquire values such as justice, peace, honesty, empathy, tolerance, human rights, respect, love, responsibility, charity, patriotism, etc. through history courses. There are many materials in history courses that support value education and that can be used in value education. One of these materials is poetry. It is possible to detect the historical events of the period they were written and the values of society. From this perspective, it is important to use poems in value education in history education. Different learning environments will be granted for students through the use of poetry in value education in history courses. Furthermore, the use of such different materials in the acquisition of values in history lessons will enable further internalization of values. In this study, the fact that value education could be carried out via the use of poetry in history courses was tried to be explained. With this purpose in mind, a theoretical framework for the relation between values and poetry was aimed to be put forward and how poetry could be used in value education in history courses was tried to be explained.

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Using Poetry in Social Studies Classes to Teach about Cultural Diversity and Social Justice

Cited by 27 publications

References 2 publications

Toward a School-Wide Model of Teaching for Social Justice: An Examination of the Best Practices of Two Small Public Schools

Toward a School-Wide Model of Teaching for Social Justice: An Examination of the Best Practices of Two Small Public Schools

Poetry as method in the history classroom: decolonising possibilities

A Literary Genre in Value Education in History Courses: Poems

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