Critical Literacy and Urban Youth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Literacy and Urban Youth write by Ernest Morrell. This book was released on 2015-07-22. Critical Literacy and Urban Youth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Critical Literacy and Urban Youth offers an interrogation of critical theory developed from the author’s work with young people in classrooms, neighborhoods, and institutions of power. Through cases, an articulated process, and a theory of literacy education and social change, Morrell extends the conversation among literacy educators about what constitutes critical literacy while also examining implications for practice in secondary and postsecondary American educational contexts. This book is distinguished by its weaving together of theory and practice. Morrell begins by arguing for a broader definition of the "critical" in critical literacy – one that encapsulates the entire Western philosophical tradition as well as several important "Othered" traditions ranging from postcolonialism to the African-American tradition. Next, he looks at four cases of critical literacy pedagogy with urban youth: teaching popular culture in a high school English classroom; conducting community-based critical research; engaging in cyber-activism; and doing critical media literacy education. Lastly, he returns to theory, first considering two areas of critical literacy pedagogy that are still relatively unexplored: the importance of critical reading and writing in constituting and reconstituting the self, and critical writing that is not just about coming to a critical understanding of the world but that plays an explicit and self-referential role in changing the world. Morrell concludes by outlining a grounded theory of critical literacy pedagogy and considering its implications for literacy research, teacher education, classroom practice, and advocacy work for social change.
Becoming Critical Researchers
Becoming Critical Researchers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Becoming Critical Researchers write by Ernest Morrell. This book was released on 2004. Becoming Critical Researchers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Becoming Critical Researchers analyzes the findings of a two-year ethnographic study of the apprenticeship of urban youth as critical researchers of popular culture. Drawing on new literacy studies, critical pedagogy, and sociocultural learning theory, this book documents the changes in student participation within a critical research-focused community of practice. These changes include the acquisition and development of academic and critical literacies and the resulting translations of these literacies into increased academic performance, greater access to college, and commitment to social action. This book inserts critical and postmodern theory into the conception and evaluation of classroom practice and its findings suggest that programs centering on the lived experiences of teens can indeed achieve the goals of critical education, while also promoting academic achievement in urban schools.
What They Don't Learn in School
What They Don't Learn in School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What They Don't Learn in School write by Jabari Mahiri. This book was released on 2004. What They Don't Learn in School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contributors to this book have illuminated the practices of literacy and learning in the lives of urban youth. Their descriptions and assessments of these practices are anchored in perspectives of «New Literacy Studies». The ten studies explore a number of urban scenes in order to engage, understand, and present multiple youth identities, attitudes, activities, representations, and stories connected to a range of situated, adaptive, and voluntary uses of literacy. The authors use a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to explicate the various skills, the distinct methods of production or composition, the subjective and collective meanings, the mutable and variegated texts, and the dynamic contexts that urban youth utilize for expression, affirmation, and pleasure. There is a response to each chapter by a major scholar in its area of focus. Together, these studies and responses contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the pedagogies, politics, and possibilities of literacy and learning in and out of school.
Becoming Activist
Becoming Activist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Becoming Activist write by Elizabeth Bishop. This book was released on 2015. Becoming Activist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Becoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City and offers insight into conducting literacy work to promote positive youth and community development.
Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement
Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement write by Theresa Rogers. This book was released on 2014-11-27. Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today’s culture in which literacy practices reflect important cultural messages about the interplay of local and global civic engagement. The focus is on three areas of youth civic engagement and cultural critique: homelessness, violence, and performing adolescence. The authors explore how youth appropriate the arts, media, and literacy as resources and how this enables them to express their identities and engage in social and cultural engagement and critique. The book describes how the youth in the various projects represented entered the public sphere; the claims they made; the ways readers might think about pedagogical engagements, practice, and goals as forms of civic engagement; and implications for critical and arts and media-based literacy pedagogies in schools that forward democratic citizenship in a time when we are losing sight of issues of equity and social justice in our communities and nations.
