Reconceptualizing The Literacies In Adolescents Lives

Author : Donna E. Alvermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317433866
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives written by Donna E. Alvermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives, Second Edition focuses on exploring the impact of young people's identity-making practices in mediating their perceptions of themselves as readers and writers in an era of externally mandated reforms. What is different in the Second Edition is its emphasis on the importance of valuing adolescents' perspectives--in an era of skyrocketing interest in improving literacy instruction at the middle and high school levels driven by externally mandated reforms and accountability measures. A central concern is the degree to which this new interest takes into account adolescents’ personal, social, and cultural experiences in relation to literacy learning. In this new edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives students’ voices and perspectives are featured front and center in every chapter. Particular attention is given throughout to multiple literacies--especially how information and new communication technologies are changing learning from and with text. Nine of the 15 chapters are new; all other chapters are thoroughly updated. The volume is structured around four main themes: * Situating Adolescents’ Literacies–addressing how young people use favorite texts to perform their identities; how they counter school-based constructions of incompetence; and how they re/construct their literate identities in relation to certain kinds of gendered expectations, pedagogies, and cultural resources; * Positioning Youth as Readers and Writers–stressing the importance of classroom discourse, cultural capital, agency, and democratic citizenship in mediating adolescents’ literate identities; * Mediating Practices in Young People’s Literacies–looking at issues of language, social class, race, and culture in shaping how adolescents represent themselves and are represented by others; and * Changing Teachers, Teaching Changes–capturing the productive ambiguities associated with teaching urban adolescents to read and write in changing times, encouraging students to conduct action research on topics that are personally relevant, and using ‘enabling constraints’ as a concept to formulate policies on adolescent literacy instruction. Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives, Second Edition is an essential volume for researchers, faculty, teacher educators, and graduate students in the field of adolescent literacy education.

Author : Donna E. Alvermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136728082
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives written by Donna E. Alvermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inviting middle- and high-school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies, this edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives focuses on bridging students’ everyday literacies and school learning.

Author : Donna E. Alvermann
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ISBN 13 : 9780415892926
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Author : Donna E. Alvermann
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780805825602
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives written by Donna E. Alvermann and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives invites middle and high school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies. The aim is to capture adolescents' know-how and evolving expertise in an array of literacy contexts--all of them rich in language and meaning. This volume moves beyond a tendency to view current instructional recommendations--which focus on textbooks, tasks, and outcomes--as being apolitical or having universal applications. In these times of school reform and public accountability, this book calls on readers to bear in mind that issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class have everything to do with who is listened to as well as when and with what effect. It also calls on readers to remember that adolescents carry an almost infinite number of abilities and insights that can and should be invited to any work deemed important in classrooms. By concentrating on the social and cultural dimensions of adolescent literacies, the contributors to this volume have written in ways that move the adolescent learner up front and center stage.

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Author : Hadar Dubowsky Ma'ayan
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807753149
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Girls written by Hadar Dubowsky Ma'ayan and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Girls captures the voices and literacy experiences of a diverse group of urban adolescent girls. The author—an experienced researcher and middle school teacher—intertwines investigations of multiple literacies, technologies, race, class, gender, sexuality, and gender expression to provide a provocative look at what helps and what hurts adolescent girls in school. Through engaging case studies, we see how traditional schooling fails to make room for crucial life topics, such as grappling with sexual or racial identity, understanding gang culture, or coming of age in urban America. Each chapter concludes with concrete strategies for improving both in- and out-of-school practices to better serve young girls, especially marginalized students.

Author : Karen D. Wood
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1606233815
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy Instruction for Adolescents written by Karen D. Wood and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough and accessible, this professional resource and text shows how the latest research in adolescent literacy can be translated into effective practice in middle and high school classrooms. Leading authorities discuss findings on the adolescent learner, addressing such essential topics as comprehension, content-area literacy, differentiated instruction, gender differences in literacy learning, and English language learners. With a focus on evidence-based methods, coverage ranges from techniques for building digital literacy and comprehension skills to strategies for flexible grouping and writing instruction. Ideal for courses in adolescent literacy, each chapter includes guiding questions, discussion questions, and classroom examples.

Author : Donna E. Alvermann
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433105517
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adolescents' Online Literacies written by Donna E. Alvermann and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescents' Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture is a compilation of new work that makes concrete connections between what the research literature portrays and what teachers, school librarians, and media specialists know to be the case in their own situations. The authors (educators and researchers who span three continents) focus on ways to incorporate and use the digital literacies that young people bring to school.

Author : Jill Lewis
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1606233661
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Questions in Adolescent Literacy written by Jill Lewis and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each chapter of this unique volume, an exemplary teacher collaborates with a prominent scholar to present real-world strategies for putting literacy research to work in grades 5–12. These lively dialogues tackle key questions in adolescent literacy, including issues of motivation, critical thinking skills, content-area writing, differentiated instruction, assessment, English language learning, and technology. Suggestions for incorporating adolescents' out-of-school literacies and working with reading specialists and coaches show how to build connections between the classroom and wider communities. In-depth portraits of challenges and successes in the classroom, practical instructional tips, and stimulating questions for reflection make the book a valuable resource for inservice and preservice teachers.

Author : Donna E. Alvermann
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820455730
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World written by Donna E. Alvermann and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By embracing a rapidly changing digital world, the so-called millennial adolescent is proving quite adept at breaking down age-old distinctions among disciplines, between high- and low-brow media culture, and within print and digitized text types. Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World explores the significance of digital technologies and media in youth's negotiated approaches to making meaning within a broad array of self-defined literacy practices. Organized around a series of case studies, this book blends theories of an attention economy, generational differences, communication technologies, and neoliberal enactive texts with actual accounts of adolescents' use of instant messaging, shape-shifting portfolios, critical inquiry, and media production.