Educational Inequality and Systemic Reform: Creative Writing Education for Social Change

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This seminar begins by mapping out some of the principal features of inequality in the US educational system. It ends by examining the theory and practice of creative writing education , with an emphasis on how to use storytelling as a tool to empower children of all socioeconomic backgrounds. We connect the two by examining opportunities for achieving systemic educational reform and overcoming pedagogical, bureaucratic, and political obstacles to change.