Professor Laura Snyder has been awarded a Community-Based Learning and Research (CBLR) Course Mini-Grant in support of her Fall 2022 undergraduate course, EDUC 520: Adolescent Literature.
This introductory seminar presents an overview of the historical, socio-cultural, academic, and political issues that provide context for the use and availability of adolescent literature today. Ideas that figure prominently in the course are connections between reading and democracy and decolonizing the school curriculum. Particular attention focuses on reading engagement for adolescents, the availability of “own voices” texts, access to literacy and fluency through adolescent literature, and issues of censorship in American public school classrooms and libraries.