Date of Award

Summer 7-14-2024

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ed.D. in Secondary and Middle Grades Education (English)

Department

Bagwell College of Education - Department of Secondary & Middle Grades Education

Committee Chair/First Advisor

Dr. Jennifer Dail

Second Advisor

Dr. Megan Adams

Third Advisor

Dr. Guichun Zong

Abstract

This study aims to understand how women’s voices can be empowered in a high school English Language Arts (ELA) class. Through the use of female authors and female protagonists in the classroom texts, this study seeks to understand if implementing female-driven texts enhances female students’ literary experiences, empowers the personal identities of female students, and shapes female students’ perspectives of themselves and their peers. This case study includes female students in twelfth grade AP Literature class.

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