Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities de R. Joseph Rodriguez

Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities

R. Joseph Rodriguez

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 aug 2018

Through an innovative approach of critical ethnography and literacy research via case-study methodologies, Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites analyzes Latino/a adolescents' engagement with the elements of literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. How young people enact literacies in their bicultural lives and understand literary traditions today reveals their own interests in democracy, equity, and opportunity. Moreover, the rites they perform often recover buried histories, mirrors, and stories similar to the pre-Columbian scribes whose intellectual legacy is relevant in the twenty-first century. R. Joseph Rodríguez illustrates how adolescents experience scribal identities and language pluralism that sustains their cultural knowledge as they make meaning and enact literacies with diverse audiences in civic and schooling communities.

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R. Joseph Rodríguez was born in Houston, Texas, in 1974. He has published various works as a poet, editor, essayist, literacy advocate, teacher educator, researcher, and translator. His poems have appeared in California English, English Journal, Flyway, New Square, Texas Observer, and various anthologies. He has held various occupations such as an advisor, busboy, butcher, community organizer, consultant, delicatessen clerk, editor, enumerator, food stocker, instructional coach, interpreter, landscape worker, literacy advocate, research analyst, school bus driver, teacher, and translator. Joseph earned degrees from Kenyon College, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Connecticut. Joseph is the founder of the literacy initiative named Libre con Libros. His recent work involves promoting more community poets in the schools for students and supporting teachers as scribes with their students. He is the recipient of awards and grants from the National Council of Teachers of English and National Endowment for the Humanities. Joseph lives in Austin and Fredericksburg, Texas. He can be reached via Twitter @escribescribe.

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This book offers lenses and portraits of Latino/a adolescents who put into practice the elements of literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. It illustrates how adolescents experience scribal identities and language pluralism that sustains their cultural knowledge as they make meaning in civic and schooling communities.