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Adolescent Literacy And Collaborative Inquiry, Rob Simon, Amir Kalan
Adolescent Literacy And Collaborative Inquiry, Rob Simon, Amir Kalan
English Faculty Publications
In a teacher education classroom in Toronto, groups of middle school students, teacher candidates, and university researchers, members of our research collaborative, the Teaching to Learn Project (Simon et al., 2014; Simon & the Teaching to Learn Project, 2014), discuss projects developed from curricula they coauthored for Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (1986). Maus documents Spiegelman’s father’s recollections of the Holocaust and the author’s own struggles to come to terms with what it means to be the child of a Holocaust survivor.
Youth and teachers involved in the Teaching to Learn Project collectively worked through what historian …