Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities: Crip 4 Life
Autor Debra Smith, Kathryn F. Whitmoreen Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 noi 2005
The stories of four Mexican American male adolescents, who were active members of a gang and Smith's students in an alternative high school program, portray the complicated, multiple worlds in which these boys live. As sons and teenage parents they live in a family community; as CRIP members they live in a gang community; as "at risk" students, drop-outs, and graduates they live in a school community, and as a result of their illegal activities they live in the juvenile court community. The authors theorize about the boys' literacy in each of their communities. Literacy is viewed as ideological, related to power, and embedded in a sociocultural context. Vivid examples of conversation, art, tagging, rap, poetry, and other language and literacy events bring the narratives to life in figures and photographs in all the chapters. Readers will find this book engaging and readable, yet thought provoking and challenging.
Audiences for Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities include education researchers, professionals, and students in the areas of middle/high school education, at-risk adolescent psychology, and alternative community programs--specifically those interested in literacy education, sociocultural theory, and popular culture.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780805855982
ISBN-10: 080585598X
Pagini: 230
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 080585598X
Pagini: 230
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
ProfessionalCuprins
Contents: D. Taylor, Foreword. Preface. Introducing the Characters: Lil Boy Blue, Smurf, Juice, Lil Garfield, and Debbie. Family Community: Mi Familia. Gang Community: "West Up Cuzz." School Community, Part One (I): "They Don't Want Us Here." School Community, Part Two (II): "This Is Our School." Juvenile Court Community: "In and Out of Juvie." Images of Gangs in the Media and Research Literature. Living on the Boundaries of School: Advocacy and Research. Literacy in Communities of Success and Failure. Appendices: Timeline. Family Trees. Glossary of Gang Terminology as Used by Lil Boy Blue, Smurf, Juice, and Lil Garfield. Smurf and Sad Boy's Story.
Recenzii
"This volume is an ethnographic study of four Mexican American male adolescents and their involvement in gangs and school. By using storytelling, the authors give meaning to the reader's and the boys' world. Recommended. All readership levels."
—CHOICE
"Debbie Smith and Kathy Whitmore have produced a remarkable book....In this age of fragmentation when the alienation of youth has reached such an extreme [they] have provided us not only with an opportunity for reflection, but also for direct action in our classrooms and in our communities to reach out and change the conditions of those who grow up disenfranchised and dispossessed."
—Denny Taylor
From the Foreword
"This is exactly the type of study that we need in the expanding and generative area of Literacy Studies. It explores populations that are under-represented in published research--Mexican American students, high school students, and gang communities, and provides much needed and topical insights into the literacy communities that these students negotiate."
—Debra Goodman
Hofstra University
—CHOICE
"Debbie Smith and Kathy Whitmore have produced a remarkable book....In this age of fragmentation when the alienation of youth has reached such an extreme [they] have provided us not only with an opportunity for reflection, but also for direct action in our classrooms and in our communities to reach out and change the conditions of those who grow up disenfranchised and dispossessed."
—Denny Taylor
From the Foreword
"This is exactly the type of study that we need in the expanding and generative area of Literacy Studies. It explores populations that are under-represented in published research--Mexican American students, high school students, and gang communities, and provides much needed and topical insights into the literacy communities that these students negotiate."
—Debra Goodman
Hofstra University
Notă biografică
Smith, Debra; Whitmore, Kathryn F.
Descriere
The book is intended to help educators and researchers understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives, and rethink their assumptions about gang kids to see beyond stereotypes of a marginalized group in schools.