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The power of the pen used to spark images of the depicted dynamics between the powerful and the powerless is demonstrated in Swedish poet and activist Jenny Wrangborg’s collection of working-class poems. Wrangborg’s poems, which describe the daunting situations faced by marginalized members of the working-class sector causes the reader to question whether or not enough change is taking place, and at what paste is change truly happening in modern society. The use of Wrangborg’s work in this study is to demonstrate the role creative arts, specifically poetry plays in C4D. The findings of this study is to particularly show the way individual voices can be used to promote social justice whilst bringing attention to issues of class discrimination and gender inequality. In this study, I argue that poetry can be a vital mode of protest. The purpose of this study is to determine the strength a single individual has in helping to create change and transformation. The main aim and purpose of this research is to bring a clearer understanding of how poetry in the hands of an advocate can become a strategic communicative tool used to initiate societal change.

The purpose of this one-year ethnographic study was to explore and make meaning of the "lived reality" of white working-class girls from Riverfront who are at risk for dropping out as they make the transition from eighth grade to ninth. The focus on white working-class girls from Riverfront, a deindustrialized neighborhood in the Northeast, reflects the fact that they are one of the many subgroups vulnerable to dropping out. While large quantitative studies are providing us with information abut who drops out, when they drop out, and the "official" reason based on school codes, the voices and views of students are glaringly absent. This study provides an in-depth account of seven girls as they make the transition to high school, employing the methodology and analytic techniques of ethnography. Situated in the context of class, the study explored how these girls and their families made decisions, and investigated their beliefs, feelings and behaviors during this critical year. The study found that the girls' lives and educational experiences sharply diverged after they left their neighborhood elementary school and spread out to various high schools. The girls who attended magnet and other selective schools increased their chances to realize their potential as these schools were far superior in terms of offering students curricular, pedagogical and environmental advantages that would prepare them for higher education and well-paying jobs. In contrast, the girls who went to neighborhood schools further increased the likelihood that their economic position would remain stagnant, as the schools they attended were poorer in every respect from teacher quality to curriculum and classroom environment. While the neighborhood negatively impacted the education of these working-class girls, the influence of their families varied. Families that had social and cultural capital transmitted many advantages to their daughters, while the poorest and most socially excluded families unwittingly perpetuated poorer life outcomes for their daughters. / Educational Administration

This study was designed to build on the existing research on teaching and learning in community college contexts and the literature of college writing in two-year schools. The work of Pierre Bourdieu formed the primary theoretical framework and composition theory was used to position this study in the literature of the college writing discipline. Employing qualitative research methods and a critical working-class perspective, this study reflects a combined data set of participant observation, in-depth personal interview, and document analysis, giving shape to the experiences of fourteen students in one section of a first-year college writing course. This ethnographic study provided fruitful data regarding the nature of student/teacher relationships and students’ negotiation of authority in the classroom and in their writing. The results showcase the value of in-depth, qualitative research in college writing classrooms, a perspective with great potential to reveal underlying factors for student behaviors and outcomes in two-year literacy education. / Urban Education