Using the “Right Poem” to Raise Sociocultural Consciousness

Danné E. Davis

doi:10.1080/00131725.2014.941123

Using the “Right Poem” to Raise Sociocultural Consciousness

Danné E. Davis

Teaching and Learning

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Abstract

Abstract: This essay posits performance poetry as an innovative pedagogical tool in teacher education. The expanding racial divide between white teacher candidates and schoolchildren of color calls for new and meaningful ways to inform teacher candidates’ sociocultural understandings of schoolchildren of color. Excerpts from the author's autoethnographic narrative poems are interwoven with the words and wisdom of notables Nikki Giovanni and Gwendolyn Brooks. Reflections on the author's efforts to integrate the right poem reveal success when framed by Urie Brofenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	421-431
Number of pages	11
Journal	Educational Forum
Volume	78
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00131725.2014.941123
State	Published - 1 Oct 2014

Keywords

autoethnographic poetry
critical literacy
critical race theory
neopoetics
teacher education

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