Title: Critical Literacy and Urban Youth: Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation
Abstract:Critical Literacy and Urban Youth offers an interrogation of theory developed from the author’s work with young people in classrooms, neighborhoods, and institutions of power. Through cases, an articu...Critical Literacy and Urban Youth offers an interrogation of 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 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 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 literacy pedagogy with urban youth: teaching popular culture in a high school English classroom; conducting community-based research; engaging in cyber-activism; and doing media literacy education. Lastly, he returns to theory, first considering two areas of literacy pedagogy that are still relatively unexplored: the importance of reading and writing in constituting and reconstituting the self, and writing that is not just about coming to a 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 literacy pedagogy and considering its implications for literacy research, teacher education, classroom practice, and advocacy work for social change.Read More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-12-10
Language: en
Type: book
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