Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives

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

• ISBN13: 9780805825602
• ISBN10: 0805825606
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: LEA, Inc.

Summary

Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Livesinvites middle and high school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies. The aim is to capture adolescents' know-how and evolving expertise in an array of literacy contexts--all of them rich in language and meaning. This volume moves beyond a tendency to view current instructional recommendations--which focus on textbooks, tasks, and outcomes--as being apolitical or having universal applications. In these times of school reform and public accountability, this book calls on readers to bear in mind that issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class have everything to do with who is listened to as well as when and with what effect. It also calls on readers to remember that adolescents carry an almost infinite number of abilities and insights that can and should be invited to any work deemed important in classrooms. By concentrating on the social and cultural dimensions of adolescent literacies, the contributors to this volume have written in ways that move the adolescent learner up front and center stage.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Teacher Editorial Advisory Board	p. xiv
Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxii
References	p. xxiii
Adolescents and Their Multiple Literacies	p. 1
References	p. 2
Playing for Real: Performative Texts and Adolescent Identities	p. 3
References	p. 25
Multiple Literacies in a High-School Program for """"At-Risk"""" Adolescents	p. 27
References	p. 47
Black-Mystor Literate Currency in Everyday Schooling	p. 51
References	p. 70
Changing Classroom Patterns for Teachers and Adolescents	p. 73
Rference	p. 74
Crossing Boundaries of Race in a Critical Literacy Classroom	p. 75
References	p. 98
Teachers and Students Mutually Influencing Each Other's Literacy Practices: A Focus on the Student's Role	p. 103
References	p. 125
Secondary Teachers' Beliefs About Literacy: Emerging Voices	p. 129
References	p. 145
Teacher Literacy Histories and Adolescent Voices: Changing Content-Area Classrooms	p. 149
References	p. 168
Representing Adolescents' Sensemaking	p. 171
References	p. 172
Reconstructing Our Understandings of Adolescents' Participation in Classroom Literacy Events: Learning to Look Through Other Eyes	p. 173
Rference	p. 190
Listening to the Talk of Adolescent Girls: Lessons About Literacy, School, and Life	p. 193
References	p. 222
Two Kinds of Teenagers: Language, Identity, and Social Class	p. 225
References	p. 244
Discussion as a Practice of Carnival	p. 247
References	p. 263
Reading and Writing in Contexts	p. 265
Rference	p. 266
Walking on the Commons: Genre as a Tool in Supporting Adolescent Literacy	p. 267
References	p. 280
Agency and Adolescent Literacy	p. 283
References	p. 300
Critical Literacy and School Reform: So Much to Do in So Little Time	p. 303
References	p. 322
Reframing the Problems of Adolescence and Adolescent Literacy: A Dilemma-Management Perspective	p. 325
References	p. 348
Imagining the Possibilities	p. 353
References	p. 370
Author Index	p. 373
Subject Index	p. 381
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