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2018
Volume 115, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

This essay examines students’ transgressive critical literacies in response to current events and contemporary manifestations of sociopolitical youth resistance, calling on educators to uplift malicious compliance, creative compliance, and transgressive humor to live out the core value of qualified hope.

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