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2018
Volume 114, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

This article describes literacy practices and outdoor activities in high school English classrooms—framed as critical rambling, a pedagogy seeking to raise awareness of issues like climate justice—with illustrations from a dissertation of teacher research and additional student work.

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