Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Jabari Mahiri
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Volume:   2
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780820450360

ISBN 10:   0820450367
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   28 July 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Jabari Mahiri: New Literacies in a New Century - Jabari Mahiri: Street Scripts: African American Youth Writing About Crime and Violence - Pedro A. Noguera: Response to Street Scripts - Peter Cowan: Devils or Angels: Literacy and Discourse in Lowrider Culture - Jose David Saldivar: Response to Devils or Angels - Wan Shun Eva Lam: Border Discourses and Identities in Transnational Youth Culture - Claire Kramsch: Response to Border Discourses - Beth Lewis Samuelson: I used to go to school. Now I learn. Unschoolers Critiquing the Discourse of School - Carol D. Lee: Response to I used to go to school. Now I learn. - Jennifer Seibel Trainor: Critical Cyberliteracy: Reading and Writing The X-Files - Andrea Abernethy Lunsford: Response to Critical Cyberliteracy - Tony Mirabelli: Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers - Stuart Tannock: Response to Learning to Serve - Jane Stanley: Practicing for Romance: Adolescent Girls Read the Romance Novel - Gesa E. Kirsch: Response to Practicing for Romance - Amanda Godley: Negotiating Gender Through Academic Literacy Practices - Barrie Thorne: Response to Negotiating Gender - Soraya Sablo Sutton: Spoken Word: Performance Poetry in the Black Community - June Jordan: Response to Spoken Word - Ernest Morrell/Jeff Duncan-Andrade: What They Do Learn in School: Hip-Hop as a Bridge to Canonical Poetry - Jeannie Oakes: Response to What They Do Learn.

Reviews

« In a provocative and energetic volume, Jabari Mabiri has assembled an impressive team of inquirers who take seriously tbe expansive and multiple literate behaviors expressed by youth. Destined to be read widely, this book highlights youth agency and suggests how connections can be made between traditional curriculums and the 'new literacies'.

Author Information

The Editor: Jabari Mahiri is Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture and co-director of the Center of Urban Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been Senior Fellow of the Annenberg Institute, an Executive Committee Member of CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication), and a high school English teacher in the Chicago public schools. Dr. Mahiri is the author of Shooting for Excellence: African American and Youth Culture in New Century Schools, as well as a number of journal articles on the language and literacy development of urban youth.

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