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Advocacy; Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools; Educational equalization; Freedom School; Human rights – Study and teaching; Literacy – Study and teaching; Multicultural education; Multiculturalism; Social justice – Study and teaching
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Reading The World In The Word: The Possibilities For Literacy Instruction Framed Within Human Rights Education, Judith M. Dunkerly
Reading The World In The Word: The Possibilities For Literacy Instruction Framed Within Human Rights Education, Judith M. Dunkerly
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The purpose of this critical ethnography was to investigate the experiences of teachers and students when literacy instruction was framed within human rights education. Informed by critical socio-cultural theory and Freirean concepts of critical literacy and praxis, this study highlights the experiences of two servant leader interns (teachers) and sixteen scholars (student) participating in human rights education sessions within the context of a CDF Freedom School. Data sources included semi-structured and informal interviews, scholar and intern artifacts including multimedia projects, and recorded classroom discussions. Data were analyzed utilizing Michel Foucault’s concept of “regime of truth” in order to examine how …