Social justice and special education: teaching prosocial behaviour through literature
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Authors
Walker, Kristine D.
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2017
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en
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When we incorporate social justice in our practice, we act upon the power that we have as teachers to make positive change. It is not an ‘add-on’ but rather an integral part of a high-quality curriculum. With the policy of inclusion, special needs students are at potential risk of bullying, and despite the implementation of school-wide anti-bullying interventions dating as far back as the early 1980s, anti-social behaviour persists. In the absence of school-wide interventions, the teaching of social responsibility increasingly lies with the classroom teacher. The project outlined in chapter 3 is a unit of study based on social justice theory for an English Language Arts Focused Literary Studies 10. The unit plan in the Appendix begins with shorter texts and culminates in a literature circle unit, the aim of which is to use stories to help build empathy and create a more caring and inclusive learning environment. It asks students to consider the guiding question: How does reading about the experience of others deepen our understanding of their lives and enrich our own?
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Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University