Critical Literacy and Urban Youth: Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation (Language, Culture, and Teaching Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805856641 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Very dense, but full of info" according to Kelli H. Wright. I read this book as part of a course, and I struggled through most of it because of the language. I think the approach is a valid one, and it is something I hope to use in my future classroom. But do not expect to read this leisurely on a Sunday afternoon, this
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. 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. Next, he looks at four cases of critical literacy pedagogy with urban youth: t