Using the “Right Poem” to Raise Sociocultural Consciousness
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Abstract
Abstract: This essay posits performance poetry as an innovative pedagogical tool in teacher education. The expanding racial divide between white teacher candidates and schoolchildren of color calls for new and meaningful ways to inform teacher candidates’ sociocultural understandings of schoolchildren of color. Excerpts from the author's autoethnographic narrative poems are interwoven with the words and wisdom of notables Nikki Giovanni and Gwendolyn Brooks. Reflections on the author's efforts to integrate the right poem reveal success when framed by Urie Brofenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory.
DOI
10.1080/00131725.2014.941123
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Davis, Danne, "Using the “Right Poem” to Raise Sociocultural Consciousness" (2014). Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works. 152.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/teaching-learning-facpubs/152