Enacting Adolescent Literacies Across Communities : Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites / R. Joseph Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodríguez, Rodrigo Joseph, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--Social aspects--Texas--Case studies.

Multicultural education--Texas--Case studies.

Language arts (Secondary)--Social aspects--Texas--Case studies.

Language arts (Secondary)--Social aspects.

Literacy--Social aspects.

Multicultural education.

Language arts (Secondary).

Texas.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 145 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books [2017]

Summary:

Through an innovative approach of critical ethnography and literacy research via case-study methodologies, Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites analyzes Latino/a adolescents' engagement with the elements of literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. How young people enact literacies in their bicultural lives and understand literary traditions today reveals their own interests in democracy, equity, and opportunity. Moreover, the rites they perform often recover buried histories, mirrors, and stories similar to the pre-Columbian scribes whose intellectual legacy is relevant in the twenty-first century. R. Joseph Rodríguez illustrates how adolescents experience scribal identities and language pluralism that sustains their cultural knowledge as they make meaning and enact literacies with diverse audiences in civic and schooling communities. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Making Connections Come Alive across Literacies 1

2 Histories and Scribes at Milagros High School 9

3 Transcribing Identities at Guadalupe Middle School 27

4 Adolescent Scribe's Rites at Ciprés High School 43

5 Teachers as Writing Whisperers at Cholla University 51

6 Reading Ravens and Wild Readers among Us 71.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-137) and index.

ISBN:

9781498536448

1498536441

OCLC:

958798209