Young Adult Literature and Spirituality: How to Unlock Deeper Understanding with Class Discussion

The book offers revolutionary approaches to in-class discussions about young adult literature, drawing from contemplative traditions to consider themes such as prayer, lament, yearning, anger, confession, thankfulness, reconciliation, joy, obedience, pilgrimage, contemplation, and equanimity. It provides a variety of ways for classroom discussion to consider representative sentences from young adult novels and connect them to linked passages in the rest of the novel. The approaches are illustrated with twelve popular and critically interesting young adult novels, transforming discussions into meaningful and energetic class discussions that students and teachers alike will value.

Format: Hardback
Length: 180 pages
Publication date: 28 October 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

This book presents groundbreaking methods for in-class discussions of young adult literature. It demonstrates to teachers how to think beyond the themes of a book to consider how they might function as prayers of lament, yearning, anger, confession, thankfulness, reconciliation, joy, obedience, pilgrimage, contemplation, and equanimity. Additionally, it provides a variety of ways for classroom discussion to consider a representative sentence or two from a young adult novel, allowing students to connect to linked passages in the rest of the novel. These approaches for classroom discussion are drawn from a range of contemplative traditions, including Jewish and Christian faith traditions, and include florilegium, lectio divina, PaRDeS, Ignatian Imagination, havruta, and marginalia. Drawing from a range of in-class experiences, the authors explain each approach in the context of twelve popular and critically interesting young adult novels, including The Hate U Give, Long Way Down, Speak, The Poet X, The Fault in our Stars, Brown Girl Dreaming, and others. This book will transform discussions that are disconnected from the book, lacking in relevance, or missing the energy that drives good conversation into meaningful and energetic class discussions that students and teachers alike will value.

Weight: 424g
Dimension: 236 x 160 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781475862096