Everyday Youth Literacies Critical Perspectives for New Times

Testifying to the maturity of the youth literacy education field, this collection of papers displays the increasing sophistication of research on the subject, and at the same time offers pointers to its potential for development in the next decade. The contributors track the rapid proliferation of y...

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Other Authors: Sanford, Kathy (Editor), Rogers, Theresa (Editor), Kendrick, Maureen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
Series:Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by John Willinsky
  • 1 An Introduction to Everyday Youth Literacies: Critical Perspectives in New Time: Kathy Sanford, Theresa Rogers, and Maureen Kendrick
  • 2 Narrative Interpretation: Tacit and Explicit, Analogue and Digital: Margaret Mackey
  • 3 Videogame Literacies: Purposeful Civic Engagement for 21st Century Youth Learning
  • Kathy Sanford and Sarah Bonsor Kurki
  • 4 Public Pedagogies of Street-entrenched Youth: New Literacies, Identity and Social Critique: Theresa Rogers, Sara Schroeter, Amanda Wager, and Chelsey Hague
  • 5 “My film will change the world…or something”: Youth Media Production as “Social Text”: Lori McIntosh
  • 6 Digital media and the knowledge-producing practices of young people in the age of AIDS: Claudia Mitchell
  • 7 Youth Literacies in Kenya and Canada: Lessons Learned from a Global Learning Network Project: Maureen Kendrick, Margaret Early, and Walter Chemjor
  • 8 eGranary and digital identities of Ugandan youth: Bonny Norton
  • 9 What counts as the social in a social practices approach to the study of children’s engagement with electronic media, language and literacy in a context of social diversity?: Mastin Prinsloo and Polo Lemphane.- 10 Shack Video Halls in Uganda as Youth Community/Literacy Learning and Cultural Interaction Sites: George Openjuru and Stella Achen
  • 11 Making School Relevant: Adding New Literacies to the Policy Agenda : Cheryl McLean, Jennifer Rowsell & Diane Lapp
  • 12 From ‘Othering’ to Incorporation: the dilemmas of crossing informal and formal learning boundaries: Julian Sefton-Green
  • 13 Epilogue: Victoria Carrington