31st Annual Student Research Conference
Social Justice: Literature, Reality, and the Classroom
Dani Eschweiler♦
Dr. Summer Pennell, Faculty Mentor
In this self study, I examined which classroom activities and instructional strategies were the most effective in increasing student awareness of social justice issues throughout a unit on August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Based on classroom observations made over a six-week period, I examined the impact of teaching high school juniors English through a social justice lens. Through observations of student response to various instructional strategies, I found that specific instructional strategies better facilitated student ability to identify and address issues of social justice both inside and outside of the classroom.
Keywords: Social Justice, English, Secondary Education, High School
Topic(s):English, Secondary MAE Research
Presentation Type: Oral Paper
Session: 202-5
Location: MG 1090
Time: 10:30