The Caring Community of Young Adult Literature

There is much in education today that I could complain about: inadequate budgets, far too much emphasis on testing, too many incompetent administrators and under-trained colleagues, lack of time to prepare adequately, hostile or disinterested students, uninvolved parents, overly involved parents, religious fanatics who push their narrow agendas and bully school administrators to remove dozens of books from our classrooms and libraries. [...]while none of us can honestly claim to really understand today's teenagers (heck, they can't even understand themselves most of the time!), we still care about them and welcome them into our conversations. Because we care about teenagers, we care about finding the right books for them, as Teri Lesesne says in her book Making the Match: The Right Book for the Right Reader at the Right Time, because we know how important books can be for understanding ourselves and understanding the wider world. [...]you will likely hear a couple of authors quote from letters they receive from student readers who have been touched by their work, and others may tell you how comments and questions from readers motivated them to write a particular novel or a whole series of them. [...]all of the authors here at this workshop have come without remuneration. In truth, we'll all be very happy if you go home and share these books and experiences with your students and your colleagues. Because they care about their teenage audience, these writers, unlike writers of generations before S.E. Hinton, are incredibly honest with teen readers.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Gallo, Donald R.

Đề mục:

Young adult literature

Nhà xuất bản:

Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English

Ngày xuất bản:

Winter 2006

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Định dạng:

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Nguồn gốc:

ALAN Review; Youngstown, Volume 36, Issue 1, Winter 2006, Pages 24-28

Liên kết:

ISSN 0882-2840

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The Caring Community of Young Adult Literature

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