Untempered tongues: Teaching performance poetry for social justice

English Teaching

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 35-55

  Camangian, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical literacy; Critical pedagogy; Performance poetry; Social justice education; Spoken word; Student voice

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350378782     PISSN: 11758708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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