What happens when academic upgrading students use critical literacy, creative writing, and digital storytelling to document their life histories and experiences of schooling?
The Writing and Rising Project
is an alternative to the skills-focused academic upgrading curriculum. This collaborative research project documents a critical literacy curriculum in a mandatory English skillsbuilding course for ethnically diverse students, ages 19-59, each of whom have experienced prior school struggles or interrupted formal schooling. The study explores how academic upgrading students use critical literacy to explore moments of change in their lives through multimodal, arts-based activities. The goal is to improve students’ learning and engagement in issues of identity, power, and change by positioning them as co-constructors of knowledge.
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