Teacher educators engage preservice teachers with The 57 Bus

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dc.contributor.authorMorton, Tami
dc.contributor.authorBabino, Alexandra
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-15T15:29:35Z
dc.date.available2023-06-15T15:29:35Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe 57 Bus is an intriguing nonfiction story in which Dashka Slater uses her journalistic style to chronicle the explosive encounter of two high-school teenagers on the 57 bus. One teenager, Sasha, is White and from a middle-class neighborhood. Sasha, wearing a skirt, identifies as agender, rather than as either male or female. Richard is an African-American teen from a low socioeconomic status (SES) neighborhood. The book details the harrowing accounts of each student’s life prior to and after an eight-second timeframe that changed their lives forever—when Richard lights Sasha’s skirt on fire. This book explores the points of view of two students who have been traditionally marginalized in today’s schools, namely LGBTQIA, African-Americans, and those from low SES neighborhoods. By doing so, this book portrays the multidimensional lived experiences of actual students related to controversial topics like sexual and gender identity, equal housing, equitable education, and justice under the law. The book thus has the potential to counter the dominant narratives of mainstream culture by highlighting the nuanced complexity between individual “choices” and consequences that ripple across a lifetime.en_US
dc.identifier.citationThis is a published version of a paper that is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/651106. Recommended citation: Morton, T., & Babino, A. (2019). Teacher educators engage preservice teachers with The 57 Bus. Wow Stories. 6(2), 30- 36.This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author’s permission.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11274/15105
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/651106
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherWorlds of Words: Center for Global Literacies and Literatures (University of Arizona)en_US
dc.rights.holder© The Author(s).
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC-SA 4.0
dc.subjectAfrican-American female educatorsen_US
dc.subjectDashka Slateren_US
dc.subjectMarginalized studentsen_US
dc.titleTeacher educators engage preservice teachers with The 57 Busen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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