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Give Me A Mic And A Stage: A Case For Slam Poetry, Identity, And Socio-Emotional Learning In The High School Classroom, Cristina V. Ramirez Apr 2020

Give Me A Mic And A Stage: A Case For Slam Poetry, Identity, And Socio-Emotional Learning In The High School Classroom, Cristina V. Ramirez

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Many research companies in the past decade have been interested in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). In particular, these companies often look at how a lack of SEL education in schooling affects the ability for students to learn and later develop essential skills such as identifying emotions, positive goal setting, decision-making, and many other crucial socio-emotional skills that are often taken for granted. This paper seeks to find and discuss how SEL intersects with teaching a slam poetry unit in a high school sophomore English classroom. Through looking at the connections between slam poetry and SEL, this paper argues that …


Anti-Affirmative Action And Historical Whitewashing: To Never Apologize While Committing New Racial Sins, Hoang V. Tran Jan 2020

Anti-Affirmative Action And Historical Whitewashing: To Never Apologize While Committing New Racial Sins, Hoang V. Tran

Journal of Educational Controversy

Apologies, official or otherwise, for historical wrongs are important steps in the road towards reconciliation. More difficult are historical wrongs that have yet to be fully acknowledged. The reemergence of affirmative action in the public consciousness via the Supreme Court represents a striking example of the ways in which our collective consciousness has yet to fully account for our past educational sins: segregation and income inequality. This essay explores the multiple consequences to our historical memory when the anti-affirmative action narrative continues to dominate the public discourse on racism in education. I offer a renewed focus on ‘fenced out’ as …


Review Of Jefferson’S Revolutionary Theory And The Reconstruction Of Educational Purpose By Kerry T. Burch, Tony Decesare Jan 2020

Review Of Jefferson’S Revolutionary Theory And The Reconstruction Of Educational Purpose By Kerry T. Burch, Tony Decesare

Journal of Educational Controversy

This is a review of Kerry T. Burch's book Jefferson’s Revolutionary Theory and the Reconstruction of Educational Purpose.


The Ethics Of Memory: What Does It Mean To Apologize For Historical Wrongs, Lorraine Kasprisin Jan 2020

The Ethics Of Memory: What Does It Mean To Apologize For Historical Wrongs, Lorraine Kasprisin

Journal of Educational Controversy

The controversy for this issue focuses on the theme, “The Ethics of Memory: What Does it Mean to Apologize for Historical Wrongs.” Although the controversial scenario we posed for this issue stems from current events in the news, we invited authors to examine more deeply the historical and cultural undercurrents that gave rise to them. Our authors responded from a number of different perspectives that encapsulate different times, populations, scholarly disciplines, methodologies and ways of interpreting the question.


About The Authors Jan 2020

About The Authors

Journal of Educational Controversy

"About the Authors" for Volume 14 of the Journal of Educational Controversy