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Seeking Asylum
Author(s) -
DunkerlyBean Judith,
Bean Thomas,
Alnajjar Khaled
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.349
Subject(s) - human rights , human rights education , interpretation (philosophy) , reading (process) , perspective (graphical) , literacy , pedagogy , critical literacy , sociology , critical reading , visual literacy , psychology , political science , law , linguistics , visual arts , art , philosophy
The purpose of this study was to explore middle school (grade 6‐8) students' understanding and interpretation of human rights issues with local and global implications as they engaged in the process of creating a film after reading print and multimedia texts and participating in human rights education activities. As the students explored issues related to local/global human rights from a cosmopolitan critical literacy perspective, their understanding of the interrelatedness of these issues became more complex prompting advocacy efforts.