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Author Rogers, Theresa, author.

Title Youth, critical literacies, and civic engagement : arts, media, and literacy in the lives of adolescents / Theresa Rogers, Kari-Lynn Winters, Mia Perry, and Anne-Marie LaMonde
Published New York : Routledge, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 131 pages) : illustrations
Contents Youth literacies: arts, media, and critical literacy practices as civic engagement -- Shouting from the street: youth, homelessness and zining practices -- Leaving out violence: talking back to the community through film -- Performing adolescence: staging bodies in motion -- Youth claims in a global city: texts, discourses, and spaces of youth literacies
Summary Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school-performance and parody, cartoons and poetry-to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today's urban culture in which literacy practices reflect important cultural messages about the interplay of local and global civic engagement. The focus is on three areas of youth civic engagement and cultural critique: homelessness, violence, and performing adolescence. The authors explore how youth appropriate the arts, media, and literacy as resources and how this enables them to express their identities and engage in social and cultural engagement and critique. The book describes how the youth in the various projects represented entered the public sphere; the claims they made; the ways readers might think about pedagogical engagements, practice, and goals as forms of civic engagement; and implications for critical and arts and media-based literacy pedagogies in schools. It calls for more uncommon curricula that address the energies, skills, and resources that your people bring to the classroom and that forward democratic citizenship in a time when we are losing sight of issues of equity and social justice in our communities and nations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education, Urban -- British Columbia -- Vancouver
Arts -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- British Columbia -- Vancouver
Urban poor -- Education -- British Columbia -- Vancouver
Youth with social disabilities -- Education -- British Columbia -- Vancouver
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Arts -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Education, Urban
Urban poor -- Education
Youth with social disabilities -- Education
British Columbia -- Vancouver
Form Electronic book
Author Winters, Kari-Lynn, 1969- author.
Perry, Mia, author.
LaMonde, Anne-Marie, author.
ISBN 9781317702641
1317702646
9781315780481
1315780488