Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives

by Alvermann, Donna E.; Hinchman, Kathleen A.; Moore, David W.; Phelps, Stephen F.

• ISBN13: 9780805825596
• ISBN10: 0805825592
• Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: LEA, Inc.

Summary

Invites middle & H.S. educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies. By concentrating on the social & cultural dimensions of adolescent literacies, the authors have written in ways that move the adolescent learner center stag

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi	(4)
Foreword	xv	(2)
Richard T. Vacca
Preface	xvii
Donna E. Alvermann
Kathleen A. Hinchman
David W. Moore
Stephen F. Phelps
Diane R. Waff
Part I: Adolescents and Their Multiple Literacies	1	(72)
Stephen F. Phelps
1 Playing for Real: Performative Texts and Adolescent Identities	3	(24)
Lorri Neilsen
2 Multiple Literacies in a High-School Program for "At-Risk" Adolescents	27	(24)
David G. O'Brien
3 Black-Mystory: Literate Currency in Everyday Schooling	51	(22)
Jennifer E. Obidah
Part II: Changing Classroom Patterns for Teachers and Adolescents	73	(98)
Diane R. Waff
4 Crossing Boundaries of Race in a Critical Literacy Classroom	75	(28)
Bob Fecho
5 Teachers and Students Mutually Influencing Each Other's Literacy Practices: A Focus on the Student's Role	103	(26)
Tina M. Prentiss
6 Secondary Teachers' Beliefs About Literacy: Emerging Voices	129	(20)
John E. Readence
R. Steven Kile
Marla H. Mallette
7 Teacher Literacy Histories and Adolescent Voices: Changing Content-Area Classrooms	149	(22)
Thomas W. Bean
Part III: Representing Adolescents' Sensemaking	171	(94)
Kathleen A. Hinchman
8 Reconstructing Our Understandings of Adolescents' Participation in Classroom Literacy Events: Learning to Look Through Other Eyes	173	(20)
Kathleen A. Hinchman
9 Listening to the Talk of Adolescent Girls: Lessons About Literacy, School, and Life	193	(32)
Deborah R. Dillon
Elizabeth B. Moje
10 Two Kinds of Teenagers: Language, Identity, and Social Class	225	(22)
James Paul Gee
Valerie M. Crawford
11 Discussion as a Practice of Carnival	247	(18)
Josephine Peyton Young
Part IV: Reading and Writing in Contexts	265	(108)
David W. Moore
12 Walking on the Commons: Genre as a Tool in Supporting Adolescent Literacy	267	(16)
Julie Shalhope Kalnin
13 Agency and Adolescent Literacy	283	(20)
David W. Moore
James W. Cunningham
14 Critical Literacy and School Reform: So Much to Do in So Little Time	303	(22)
Jody Cohen
Jolley Bruce Christman
Eva Gold
15 Reframing the Problems of Adolescence and Adolescent Literacy: A Dilemma-Management Perspective	325	(28)
Peter B. Mosenthal
16 Imagining the Possibilities	353	(20)
Donna E. Alvermann
Author Index	373	(8)
Subject Index	381