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Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities - Crip 4 Life (Hardcover)
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Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities - Crip 4 Life (Hardcover)
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The goal of this book is to encourage educators and researchers to
understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in
order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school.
The particular objective is to situate four gang members as
literate, caring students from loving families whose identities and
literacy keep them on the margins of school. The research described
in this book suggests that advocacy is a particularly effective
form of critical ethnography. Smith and Whitmore argue that until
schools, as communities of practice, enable children and
adolescents to retain identities from the communities in which they
are full community members, frightening numbers of students are
destined to fail. The stories of four Mexican American male
adolescents, who were active members of a gang and Smith's students
in an alternative high school program, portray the complicated,
multiple worlds in which these boys live. As sons and teenage
parents they live in a family community; as CRIP members they live
in a gang community; as "at risk" students, drop-outs, and
graduates they live in a school community, and as a result of their
illegal activities they live in the juvenile court community. The
authors theorize about the boys' literacy in each of their
communities. Literacy is viewed as ideological, related to power,
and embedded in a sociocultural context. Vivid examples of
conversation, art, tagging, rap, poetry, and other language and
literacy events bring the narratives to life in figures and
photographs in all the chapters. Readers will find this book
engaging and readable, yet thought provoking and challenging.
Audiences for Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang,
School, and Juvenile Court Communities include education
researchers, professionals, and students in the areas of
middle/high school education, at-risk adolescent psychology, and
alternative community programs--specifically those interested in
literacy education, sociocultural theory, and popular culture.
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