| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 203 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introducing the characters : Lil Boy Blue, Smurf, Juice, Lil Garfield, and Debbie -- Family community : mi familia -- Gang community : "West up cuzz" -- School community, part one (I) : "They don't want us here." -- School community, part two (II) : "This is our school." -- Juvenile court community : "In and out of juvie" -- Images of gangs in the media and research literature -- Living on the boundaries of school : advocacy and research -- Literacy in communities of success and failure -- Appendix A. Timeline -- Appendix B. Family trees -- Appendix C. Glossary of gang terminology as used by Lil Boy Blue, Smurf, Juice, and Lil Garfield -- Appendix D. Smurf and Sad Boy's story |
| Summary |
The goal of this book is to encourage educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives to rethink their assumptions about these students in school. The 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. Readers will find this book engaging and readable, thought provoking and challenging. Audiences for this volume include education researchers, professionals, 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-197), and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gang members -- Education -- United States
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Gang members -- United States -- Case studies
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Gangs -- United States.
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Juvenile delinquents -- United States -- Case studies
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Literacy -- United States
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Mexican American youth -- Case studies
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Teacher-student relationships -- United States -- Case studies
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Gang members
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Gangs
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Juvenile delinquents
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Literacy
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Mexican American youth
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Teacher-student relationships
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Whitmore, Kathryn F., 1959- author.
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| ISBN |
9781410617439 |
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1410617432 |
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