1st Edition
Critical Literacy and Urban Youth Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation
Foreword
Preface
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two From Plato to Poststructuralism: The Philosophical Foundations of Critical Literacy
Chapter Three "Othered" Critical Traditions
Chapter Four Teaching Popular Culture in an Urban English Secondary Classroom
Chapter Five Conducting Community-based Research with Urban Youth
Chapter Six Cyberactivism
Chapter Seven Critical Media Literacy
Chapter Eight Critical Literacy as Care for the Self
Chapter Nine Critical Literacy as Social Praxis
Chapter Ten A Vision of Critical Literacy in Urban Education
Appendix A Data Collection and Data Analysis Procedures
References
Biography
Ernest Morrell
"Morrell challenges preservice and practicing teachers to embrace complex ideas in order to improve their classroom practice, especially if they want their students to become critical and engaged citizens of our nation and world…. Critical Literacy and Urban Youth is a passionate book, elegantly written and beautifully developed. Drawing on the ideas of Paulo Freire, Morrell makes no apologies for believing in and trusting both students and teachers. For him, writing and indeed all literacies, are practices of freedom. Confident that teachers can create classrooms and schools that are critical, lively, and hopeful spaces, he provides teachers and those about to enter the profession with inspiration."--Sonia Nieto, From the Foreword
"… an exciting, edgy new book of real interest to contemporary graduate students and researchers in cultural studies and critical literacy. Morrell is clearly doing landmark work in critical literacy with urban youth."--Tom Bean, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States
