Jabari (Hrsg.) Mahiri

What They Dont Learn in School

Literacy in the Lives of Urban Youth

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8204-5036-0
EAN: 9780820450360
Produktnummer: 19045975
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 284 S.
Masse: H15.2 cm x B22.5 cm x D1.8 cm 420 g
Auflage: 2 Revised edition
Abbildungen: 7 ill.
Gewicht: 420
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

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.