Urban Youth As Poets : Empowering Literacies In/Outside of Schools

by Jocson, Korina M.; Lee, Carol D.

• ISBN13: 9780820481968
• ISBN10: 0820481963
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

"Youth Poets documents an ethnographic study of the literacy learning of urban high school youth in June Jordan's Poetry for the People program. The book emphasizes how seven students adopted empowering literacies as they read, wrote, published, and performed poetry in and outside of school. Using a sociocultural and critical framework on literacy and pedagogy, the book focuses on the experiences of urban youth-from their own perspectives - to examine the various processes, products, and practices associated with poetry. It contributes to current research on literacy pedagogy in urban contexts, and further grounds connections between poetry production and academic and critical literacies. Not only does the research presented here support the use of poetry in itself, but it makes a case for the ways in which poetry can lead to transformative possibilities in diverse and multicultural classrooms."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

From Voice to Revolution	p. 1
Literacy Learning, Empowerment and Poetry	p. 15
Critical Multiculturalism and Ethnography	p. 41
Breaking Codes of Silence - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Partnership	p. 61
"How About Workshop?" Learning and Apprenticeship in the Classroom	p. 79
"Rewrite to Rewrite" Youth Production of Meaning and Social Realities	p. 107
"Bob Dylan and Hip-Hop" Literacy Practices and Spheres of Identities	p. 131
Rethinking Poetry in the Lives of Urban Youth	p. 159
Implications and Classroom Possibilities	p. 171
Coda: In Their Own Words	p. 189
Appendix A	p. 191
Appendix B	p. 195
References	p. 201
Index	p. 211
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