Re/Constructing "The Adolescent" : Sign, Symbol, and Body

by Vadeboncoeur, Jennifer A.; Stevens, Lisa Patel

• ISBN13: 9780820468037
• ISBN10: 0820468037
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-02
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction by William Ayers	ix
1 Naturalised, Restricted, Packaged, and Sold: Reifying the Fictions of "Adolescent" and "Adolescence"
Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur	1	(24)
2 What Is Happening to "Adolescence"? Growing Up in Changing Times
Johanna Wyn	25	(24)
3 Youth, Adults, and Literacies: Texting Subjectivities Within and Outside Schooling
Lisa Patel Stevens	49	(20)
4 Doing "Good" Discussion: Young People Engaged in Politically Messy, yet Compelling Conversation
Jrene Rahm & Karen Tracy	69	(28)
5 "Gotta Be Worse": Literacy, Schooling, and Adolescent Youth Offenders
Margaret Finders	97	(26)
6 The Difference That Time and Space Make: An Analysis of Institutional and Narrative Landscapes
Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur	123	(30)
7 "Wishing and Doing": Foreshadowing Life Choices in Writing
Judith V. Diamondstone	153	(28)
8 Who Gets to Play? Kids, Bodies, and Schooled Subjectivities
Lisa Hunter	181	(30)
9 Doing Popular Culture: Troubling Discourses about Youth
Elizabeth Birr Moje & Caspar van Heiden	211	(38)
10 Talking Together for Change: Examining Positioning Between Teachers and Queer Youth
Mollie V. Blackburn	249	(22)
11 ReNaming Adolescence: Subjectivities in Complex Settings
Lisa Patel Stevens	271	(12)
List of Contributors	283	(4)
Index	287