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Preservice ELA Teachers Challenge Anti-Queer Discourse in Young Adult Literature

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an announcement with the words Blog Post Kelli Rushek, TCE assistant professor and three Miami AYA ELA preservice teachers, Sarah Abdella, Hannah Myers, and Maya Manaster
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Preservice ELA Teachers Challenge Anti-Queer Discourse in Young Adult Literature

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TCE assistant professor Kelli Rushek, along with preservice teachers Sarah Abdella, Hannah Myers, and Maya Manaster, published a blog post on disrupting anti-queer discourse in Young Adult Literature. The post details their approach in Kelli's Literature and Other Media for Adolescents course, where students engaged in critical discussions, deep dives into local LGTBQ+ issues, and a multimodal reframing activity. The teachers successfully fostered hope and resistance, challenging the status quo and providing a model for inclusive education.

(AI tools Grammarly and ChatGPT 3.5, a language model developed by OpenAI, assisted in writing this news story.)

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