Fostering Inclusion of Disabled Youth through Young Adult Literature: Action Research with Wonder

Hayn, Judith A.; Clemmons, Karina; Olvey, Heather A.

doi:10.15763/issn.2376-5275.2015.1.2.64-78

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“…Research into CSE shows that using literature is beneficial to the goals of CSE and that critical literacy approaches to media in particular are effective tools for expanding how adolescents engage with gender and gender norms (Goldfarb & Lieberman, 2021). Research also suggests that YAL can be leveraged in classroom settings for other socially oriented goals (for examples, see de Leon, 2017;Ellis, 2021;Hayn et al, 2016;Hughes & Laffier, 2016;Oldham, 2019). Because research suggests uses of YAL in the classroom but without a clear understanding of leveraging YAL to contribute to CSE, the current study identifies and reviews empirical studies that look at YAL as a method of learning about CSE-related topics.…”

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Putting the “Comprehensive” in Comprehensive Sexuality Education: a Review Exploring Young Adult Literature as a School-based Intervention

Palmer

Hirsch

2022

Sex Res Soc Policy

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Introduction In this article, we review research on the impact of young adult literature (YAL) on young people's sexualityrelated beliefs. This research points to the potential of YAL as a tool through which schools can offer sex education that is truly "comprehensive" by providing young people an opportunity to grapple with questions about gender, sexuality, and healthy relationships in literature classes, and to complement CSE in health education classes. This broader approach addresses a potential limitation of school-based comprehensive sex education (CSE). CSE certainly promotes young people's health and well-being, but an emphasis on biological dimensions of sexual and reproductive health to the exclusion of social factors, or insufficient time to address social dimensions of sexual and reproductive health, can fail to amplify or even undermine CSE messages about healthy relationships and sexuality. Methods This scoping review examined research on YAL dealing with dating and relationships, gender role development, LGBTQ life, sexuality, sexual behaviors, and sexual health outcomes in Communications Abstracts, ERIC, MEDLINE, MLA International Bibliography, and PsycINFO databases. The search, run in December 2020, returned 265 articles, of which 18 were empirical studies of YAL and sexuality that met inclusion criteria for the review. Each included study was examined to identify the books' impacts and the methodological approach to assessing those impacts. Conclusions Existing research suggests that YAL in the classroom can affect discourses on masculinity, femininity, violence, sexual health, and LGBTQ life. Bringing YAL into different classroom settings has the potential to be a powerful force in integrated CSE. Policy Implications Using YAL in a variety of classroom settings, including but not limited to health and English Language Arts, will strengthen the comprehensive aspects of CSE.

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Putting the “Comprehensive” in Comprehensive Sexuality Education: a Review Exploring Young Adult Literature as a School-based Intervention

Palmer

Hirsch

2022

Sex Res Soc Policy

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“…Wonder has been used to help preservice teachers understand children with disabilities (Hayn, Clemmons & Olvey, 2016).…”

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Reading Books and Reading Minds: Differential Effects of Wonder and The Crossover on Empathy and Theory of Mind

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We tested sixth graders for empathy and theory of mind before and after an academic unit on either Wonder or The Crossover. Wonder was associated with improved perspective-taking; students who read The Crossover increased in concern for others. Faux pas detection increased in both genders with Wonder, and in girls with The Crossover. Students who read The Crossover in print showed improved understanding of facial expressions, while students who used iPads declined. Young adult fiction is associated with improved social cognitive skills, but effects depend on gender and reading format, as well as on the choice of individual book.

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The relative importance of plant-soil feedbacks for plant-species performance increases with decreasing intensity of herbivory

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Under natural conditions, aboveground herbivory and plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) are omnipresent interactions strongly affecting individual plant performance. While recent research revealed that aboveground insect herbivory generally impacts the outcome of PSFs, no study tested to what extent the intensity of herbivory affects the outcome. This, however, is essential to estimate the contribution of PSFs to plant performance under natural conditions in the field.Here, we tested PSF effects both with and without exposure to aboveground herbivory for four common grass species in nine grasslands that formed a gradient of aboveground invertebrate herbivory. Without aboveground herbivores, PSFs for each of the four grass species were similar in each of the nine grasslands -both in direction and magnitude. In the presence of herbivores, however, the PSFs differed from those measured under herbivory exclusion, and depended on the intensity of herbivory. At low levels of herbivory, PSFs were similar in the presence and absence of herbivores but differed at high herbivory levels. While PSFs without herbivores remained similar along the gradient of herbivory intensity, increasing herbivory intensity mostly resulted in neutral PSFs in the presence of herbivores. This suggests that the relative importance of PSFs for plant-species performance in grassland communities decreases with increasing intensity of herbivory. Hence, PSFs might be more important for plant performance in ecosystems with low herbivore pressure than in ecosystems with large impacts of insect herbivores.

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Fostering Inclusion of Disabled Youth through Young Adult Literature: Action Research with Wonder

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Putting the “Comprehensive” in Comprehensive Sexuality Education: a Review Exploring Young Adult Literature as a School-based Intervention

Putting the “Comprehensive” in Comprehensive Sexuality Education: a Review Exploring Young Adult Literature as a School-based Intervention

Reading Books and Reading Minds: Differential Effects of Wonder and The Crossover on Empathy and Theory of Mind

The relative importance of plant-soil feedbacks for plant-species performance increases with decreasing intensity of herbivory

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