Date of Award
Summer 7-14-2024
Degree Type
Dissertation/Thesis
Degree Name
Doctorate in Secondary English Education
Department
English 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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