Adolescent boys' literate identity / edited by Mary Rice.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rice, Mary.

Series:

Advances in research on teaching ; v. 15.

Advances in research on teaching, 1479-3687 ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy.

Boys--Books and reading.

Boys.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley [England] : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the representation of a narrative inquiry conducted with five ninth grade boys that were identified as displaying multiple literacies, looking specifically at how these boys storied their literate identities. After the stories were collected, the author conducted several negotiation sessions with the boys and their parents at the school, as well as in their homes. These negotiations facilitated a methodological concept that the book terms distillation: an interim step for determining which narratives in an inquiry are emblematic. Several lenses for conceptualizing the stories of these boys were made evident during the research. An analysis of the collected stories revealed that the boys stories moved beyond current conceptions of either identity or literacy alone and instead offered a way of defining literate identity as simultaneously being and doing literacy. In light of this definition, the boys stories revealed plotlines that together described literate identity as a form of capital. The question of how the boys story themselves, the original research question, is ultimately answered using a meta-narrative, or archetype, where a hero distributes a boon, or gift to his society. The implications for this research include a need to examine classroom space in order to facilitate the deployment of literate identity capital, as well as space for living out the meta-narratives that these boys are composing.

Contents:

ch. 1. Literacy as a game and its players / Mary Rice

ch. 2. Dual role negotiation as teacher and researcher / Mary Rice

ch. 3. Shifting tensions in boys' stories to live by about literacy / Mary Rice

ch. 4. Literate identity as edible capital / Mary Rice

ch. 5. Comedic integration in boys' stories of their literacies / Mary Rice

ch. 6. Spaces for composing literate narratives / Mary Rice

ch. 7. Boys' stories as a practical part of classroom life / Mary Rice.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-137).

Print version record

ISBN:

1-283-12335-5

9786613123350

0-85724-906-1

OCLC:

727363279