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Non-Fiction Personal stories of journeys to break social barriers - PowerPoint Presentation

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Non-Fiction Personal stories of journeys to break social barriers - PPT Presentation

Books with Powerful Messages of Social Change Fiction A deepening understanding of the complexity of the human experience Social Analysis Issues activism and visions for social change ID: 783025

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Non-Fiction Personal stories of journeys to break social barriers

Books with Powerful Messages of Social Change

Fiction

A deepening understanding of the complexity of the human experience

Social Analysis Issues, activism, and visions for social change

How

to Change the World

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What is the value added of reading different genres/types of books?

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Fiction brings the “voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society… to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope…, writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.” – Ursula K Le Guin

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Narrative Non-Fiction Personal stories of journeys to break social

barriersBooks that recount factual stories, windows into people’s personal journeysMemoir/biography/creative non-fiction – stories based on personal events or researchEthnography – story told by a researcher to provide insight into people’s lives and contextInvestigative journalism – story on a community with the aim of bringing about change

The magic behind different types of books

Fiction A deepening understanding of the complexity of the human experienceBooks that describe imaginary events and people – providing “alternatives to how we live”Novel – a fictitious narrative representing a story with

some degree of realismScience fiction/fantasy – uses magic and other supernatural forms/ fantasy is a form of sci-fi that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technologySocial Analysis Issues, activism, and visions for

social change

Books that

systematically examine a social

issue

with

the aim of prompting

change

Activist biography

for the purposes of this class,

books

that tell the stories

of activists, including the

analysis of a specific social issue and

vision

for social change from their perspective

Social analysis

– often written by a researcher, a scholar, a policy maker, or other professional

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