Metacognitive awareness is achieved by a willingness to acknowledge and explore one’s questioning such as, who benefits from the marginalization of a group of people? If society shapes the education system and the education system forms the way that people function within society, whose role is it to create and make the changes that would allow inclusivity for the marginalized to thrive?
This interactive workshop models several ways to nurture metacognition for incarcerated teens and adults. By exploring scaffolding approaches such as anticipation guides, modeling, rereading strategies, and hands-on techniques--attendees will collaborate to build an understanding of their role as literary citizens when in service to the incarcerated, and explore ways that literature can be used as a tool of social justice.
This workshop is open to all that have an interest in helping the incarcerated (re)define themselves through literature.
Anderson P Smith, Ed.M., MFA is a doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University. He teaches creative writing in both a medium and maximum-security prison in New York. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Manhattanville '15), a Master of Education in Teaching of English (Teachers College, Columbia University '18), and a Bachelor of Science in Communications (St. John's University '13). He is currently researching the effects of literature when used in service to the mentally incarcerated.
