3rd Edition

Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives Bridging the Everyday/Academic Divide, Third Edition

Edited By Donna E. Alvermann, Kathleen A. Hinchman Copyright 2012
    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    Like previous editions, the third edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives invites middle- and high-school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies. Recognizing that digital media, social networking phenomena are now central in adolescents’ lives, what is different is the focus in this edition on bridging students’ everyday literacies and subject matter learning. Four chapters from earlier editions serve as touchstone texts, honoring youth’s diverse experiences and illustrating how young people’s literacies are enacted, situated, and mediated in various locales; nine new chapters consider how these themes are lived in today’s schools and in the rapidly changing world outside of school

    This edition features heightened attention multimodal meaning construction, more discussion of practical implications of the ideas presented, and co-authored teacher commentaries at the end of each section. A Companion Website, new for this edition, facilitates practical application of the text’s key ideas, with discussion questions, and links to instructional activities, blogs, additional readings and viewings, and interactive web pages, and videos.

    Foreword
    Reconceptualizing Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement
    Randy Bomer

    Introduction
    Kathleen A. Hinchman and Donna E. Alvermann

    Part I: Understanding Youth’s Everyday Literacies

    1 Touchstone Chapter: Playing for Real: Texts and the Performance of Identity
    Lorri Nielsen

    2 Becoming Life-Long Readers: Insights from a Comic Book Reader
    Stergios G. Botzakis

    3 Low-Income Youth’s (Public) Internet Practices in South America: Potential Lessons for Educators in the U.S. and Other Post-Industrial Nations
    Eliane Rubinstein-Avila

    4 Teacher Response: Lessons Learned from Young People’s Everyday Literacies
    Anne Bulcher and Margaret Moran

    Part II: Integrating Everyday and Academic Literacies

    5 Touchstone Chapter: “Struggling” Adolescents’ Engagement in Mulitmediating: Countering the Institutional Construction of Incompetence
    David O’Brien

    6 Thinking with Forensic Science: A Content Analysis of Forensic Comic Books and Graphic Novels
    Barbara Guzzetti & Marcia Mardis

    7 Reclaiming and Rebuilding the Writer Identities of Black Adolescent Males
    Marcelle M. Haddix

    8 Teacher Response: Bridging Everyday Literacies with Academic Literacy
    McKenzie Weaver

    Part III: Addressing Sociocultural and Identity Issues in Adolescents’ Literacy Lives

    9 Touchstone Chapter: Exploring Race, Language, and Culture in Critical Literacy Classrooms
    Bob Fecho
    Bette Davis
    Renee Moore

    10 Re-Writing the Stock Stories of Urban Adolescents: Autobiography as a Social and Performative Practice at the InterSections of Identities
    Kelly Wissman
    Lalitha Vasudevan

    11 “In This Little Town Nothing Much Ever Happens, But Someday Something Will”: Reading Young Adult Literature from the Blue Ridge Foothills
    Gay Ivey

    12 Teacher Response: Addressing Sociocultural and Identity Issues in Adolescents’ Literacy Lives
    Justin Claypool
    George White

    Part IV: Changing Teachers, Teaching Changes

    13 Touchstone Chapter: Adolescents’ Multiple Identities and Teacher Professional Development
    Alfred W. Tatum

    14 Reconceptualizing Together: Exploring Participatory and Productive Critical Media Literacies in a Collaborative Teacher Research Group
    Eli Tucker-Raymond
    Daisy Torres-Petrovich
    Keith Dumbleton
    Ellen Damlich

    15 Baby Steps toward Web 1.5: Middle School Teachers’ Personal Learning and Explorations of Pop Culture and Digital Literacy Tools for Classroom Literacy Instruction
    Margaret C. Hagood

    16 Teacher Response: Professional Development to Reconceptualize Literacy Instruction
    Maryanne Desmond Barrett
    Elizabeth G. Mascia

    Afterword
    Donna E. Alvermann
    Kathleen A. Hinchman

    Contributors

    Index
     

    Biography

    Donna E. Alvermann is Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia.

    Kathleen A. Hinchman is Professor, Reading & Language Arts Center and Director, Reading and English education doctoral programs, Syracuse University.

    "In the new edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives: Bridging the Everyday/Academic Divide, Donna Alvermann and Kathleen Hinchman have put together a collection that engages the literacy practices of adolescents in ways that recognize the range and variety of reading and writing that young people do on a daily basis." — Bronwyn Williams, University of Louisville, Teachers College Record

    "Eliot was a twelve-year-old seventh grader when I first met him for a testing session. I was an educational specialist and conducted assessments with students who were thought to have learning disabilities or who struggled in school. Eliot’s seventh-grade experience highlights the possibilities of inclusion. Hehir and Katzman found that the collective responsibility of successful inclusive schools is based, in part, on the relationships formed among the staff at the school, including school leaders, teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and others, and among parents, students, and staff. …Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives, edited by Donna E. Alvermann and Kathleen A. Hinchman, taken together, allow a deep look at some of the forces that made Eliot’s seventh-grade year successful."   Rachel Currie-Rubin, Harvard Educational Review

    "In this third edition of their time-honored text, Alvermann (Univ. of Georgia) and Hinchman (Syracuse Univ.) challenge today's educational culture by interrogating the ways that teens' identities are multiple, fluid, and amalgamated into their lives at school--understandings necessary for any teacher looking to reach adolescent learners. Chapters are written by various reputable researchers of adolescent literacy (e.g., Bob Fecho, Kelly Wissman, and Margaret Hagood) on the myriad ways teens consume and construct texts in and out of school. Particularly compelling are "touchstone" chapters revised and updated from previous editions of this book that reveal the pervasiveness of issues affecting adolescents. The chapters written by teachers are a wonderful model of the reflective stance practitioners should assume in respect to educational research, practice, and the profession as a whole. Summing Up: Highly Recommended"  M. B. Hopkins, Nazareth College of Rochester, CHOICE