Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces

by Jody N Polleck

Learn how to integrate book clubs into secondary school communities for transformation and inclusion so as to enhance and nurture students’ literacies along with their social and emotional development. Using her extensive experiences with culturally, neurologically, and linguistically diverse students, the author provides a rich resource that demonstrates how book clubs serve as critical places where adolescents can develop as readers while simultaneously working to build authentic relationships with their peers. Polleck offers research and theories grounded in culturally sustaining pedagogies and healing-centered engagements along with practical strategies for book club facilitators―from developing specific student-centered pedagogical approaches to embodying critical and humanizing dispositions. Book

176 pages, Paperback

Published August 26, 2022