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"The safest place": Anti-oppression in Spoken Word Poetry

dc.contributor.advisorSt. Denis, Vernaen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPark, Jeffen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMiller, Dianneen_US
dc.creatorDill, Codyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-29T06:39:45Z
dc.date.available2013-01-29T06:39:45Z
dc.date.created2013-01en_US
dc.date.issued2013-01-18en_US
dc.date.submittedJanuary 2013en_US
dc.description.abstractCurrent approaches to anti-oppressive education in Saskatchewan and in Canada are in dire need of re-evaluation. Outdated approaches to “inclusiveness” include multicultural celebrations, ethnic food fairs, and “nonracist,” “non-oppressive” strategies. Spoken word poetry has emerged in recent years as an engaging, powerful, anti-oppressive tool that has demonstrated a currency among youth. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews with five spoken word artists from varying backgrounds and experiences of oppression, this thesis attempts to describe what it is like to engage with this art form as an anti-oppressive outlet, and what personal and social benefits may ensue. The author, a spoken word artist and racialized person himself, uses existing anti-oppressive theories and auto-ethnographic reflection as interpretive tools in this phenomenological study, which also includes participants’ poetry. Based on the study results, the author builds a case for the advent of spoken word poetry into Saskatchewan secondary educational programming.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-01-873en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.subjectspoken worden_US
dc.subjectspoken word poetryen_US
dc.subjectperformance poetryen_US
dc.subjectpoetryen_US
dc.subjectanti-oppressionen_US
dc.subjectanti-oppressive educationen_US
dc.title"The safest place": Anti-oppression in Spoken Word Poetryen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentEducational Foundationsen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEducational Foundationsen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewanen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Education (M.Ed.)en_US

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