Widened Frameworks and Practice: From Bibliotherapy to the Literacy of Testimony and Witness

Considers what literacy teachers can do to prevent subsequent school failure and lowered test scores with media attention on school violence and trauma in and out of schools. Suggests bibliotherapy, a familiar tool used in earlier decades by teachers to counsel students with problems, is useful toda...

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Published in:Journal of adolescent & adult literacy 2001-04, Vol.44 (7), p.606-609
Main Authors: Wolpow, Ray, Askov, Eunice N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Failure
Adolescents
Adult literacy
Bibliotherapy
Case Studies
Child psychology
Counselor Role
Doctoral Dissertations
Drug interactions
Educational Resources
Holocaust
Instructional Improvement
Interpersonal communication
Literacy
Literary Genres
Literature
Middle Schools
Modeling (Psychology)
Post traumatic stress disorder
Psychotherapy
Reading Consultants
Reading Difficulties
Remedial Reading
Resistance (Psychology)
School Counselors
School Violence
Secondary Education
Standpoints & Voices
Symbolic Language
Teacher Role
Teachers
Teaching Methods
Test Score Decline
Therapy
Trauma
Violence
Vision
Writing Instruction
Writing Skills
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Summary:Considers what literacy teachers can do to prevent subsequent school failure and lowered test scores with media attention on school violence and trauma in and out of schools. Suggests bibliotherapy, a familiar tool used in earlier decades by teachers to counsel students with problems, is useful today in dealing with students who suffer from various forms of violence and trauma. (SG)
ISSN:1081-3004
1936-2706