Rewriting Self: Evaluating the Impact of Nonviolent Communication

• In Event: Identity and Self-Reflexitivity in Literacy Teaching and Learning

Abstract

The study is situated broadly within youth agency literature, which focuses on how youth use language and literacy to construct self and ameliorate issues of power. It intends to explore how the ongoing use of nonviolent communication (NVC) by youth influences their identity and agency. Literacy artifacts gathered during monthly NVC practice sessions are analysed using narrative inquiry to theorize on the transformative power of NVC to support youth’s sense of identity and agency.

Authors

• Phillip Wilder, Clemson University

• Judy Cañero Bautista, University of Canterbury

• Brenette Labra Abrenica, University of San Carlos

• Sherryl Muli Abellanosa, University of San Carlos

• Zona Hildegarde Amper, University of San Carlos