Description

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Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature: Strategies to Enhance Academic Skills and Empower Student Voice combines two research-based concepts, arts integration and the use of young adult literature, to provide activities and instructional strategies to boost students' communication, reading, and thinking skills, while utilizing a variety of art integrated methods with a diverse range of young adult literature to enable high school literacy teachers to harmonize art and young adult literature into their curriculum.

About the Author

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Rebecca Maldonado is a high school teacher, research educator, and a doctoral graduate from the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education at the University of Oklahoma. Her research focus is critical theory, teacher development, curriculum ideologies, global responsibility, arts integration, and young adult literature.