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Everyday Youth Literacies
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Foreword by John Willinsky.- 1 An Introduction to Everyday Youth Literacies: Critical Perspectives in New Time: Kathy Sanford, Theresa Rogers, and Maureen Kendrick.- 2 Narrative Interpretation: Tacit and Explicit, Analogue and Digital: Margaret Mackey.- 3 Videogame Literacies: Purposeful Civic Engagement for 21st Century Youth Learning.- Kathy Sanford and Sarah Bonsor Kurki.- 4 Public Pedagogies of Street-entrenched Youth: New Literacies, Identity and Social Critique: Theresa Rogers, Sara Schroeter, Amanda Wager, and Chelsey Hague.- 5 “My film will change the world…or something”: Youth Media Production as “Social Text”: Lori McIntosh.- 6 Digital media and the knowledge-producing practices of young people in the age of AIDS: Claudia Mitchell.- 7 Youth Literacies in Kenya and Canada: Lessons Learned from a Global Learning Network Project: Maureen Kendrick, Margaret Early, and Walter Chemjor.- 8 eGranary and digital identities of Ugandan youth: Bonny Norton.- 9 What counts as the social in a social practices approach to the study of children’s engagement with electronic media, language and literacy in a context of social diversity?: Mastin Prinsloo and Polo Lemphane.- 10 Shack Video Halls in Uganda as Youth Community/Literacy Learning and Cultural Interaction Sites: George Openjuru and Stella Achen.- 11 Making School Relevant: Adding New Literacies to the Policy Agenda : Cheryl McLean, Jennifer Rowsell & Diane Lapp.- 12 From ‘Othering’ to Incorporation: the dilemmas of crossing informal and formal learning boundaries: Julian Sefton-Green.- 13 Epilogue: Victoria Carrington.

About the Author

Kathy Sanford is a professor of Language and Literacy Education whose research and teaching focuses on multiliteracies and digital literacies in informal spaces, specifically related to youth engagement with videogames, and the intersections of multiliteracies with issues of gender.

Theresa Rogers is a professor of Language and Literacy Education whose research and teaching focuses on adolescent literacy, arts and media practices in schools and communities.

Maureen Kendrick is Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education whose research and teaching addresses the relationship between literacy and multimodality in diverse contexts in Canada and East Africa.

Reviews

From the book reviews:“This collection offers research on literacies most prevalent in an adolescent’s life … . The volume not only looks at the value of incorporating such literacies into student development but also explores the positive impact these literacies have had in a variety of world youth cultures … . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, professionals.” (J. M. Stiles, Choice, Vol. 52 (7), March, 2015) 

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