(Re)Mapping Youth Mobilities in the Secondary School Literature Classroom

• In Event: Exploring Interpretive Thresholds, Cultural Connections, and Social Justice in Literature Education

Abstract

Literature classrooms offer promising sites of critical and creative spatial interrogation. To date, however, few scholars of literature education have explored methods of creative spatial storytelling in their research with young adult (YA) texts and adolescent readers. In this study, I explore how Grade 10 students’ engagement with found poetry, mappings, and YA texts generated new classroom-based opportunities for students to articulate and (re)map notions of how youth engage in and transform everyday worlds.

Author

• Caroline Hamilton-McKenna, University of British Columbia