Critical Literacy and Urban Youth: Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation

Distinguished by its weaving together of theory and practice, Critical Literacy and Urban Youth offers an interrogation of critical theory developed from the authors work with young people in classrooms, neighborhoods, and institutions of power.

Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceChapter One IntroductionChapter Two From Plato to Poststructuralism: The Philosophical Foundations of Critical LiteracyChapter Three "Othered" Critical TraditionsChapter Four Teaching Popular Culture in an Urban English Secondary ClassroomChapter Five Conducting Community-based Research with Urban YouthChapter Six CyberactivismChapter Seven Critical Media LiteracyChapter Eight Critical Literacy as Care for the SelfChapter Nine Critical Literacy as Social PraxisChapter Ten A Vision of Critical Literacy in Urban EducationAppendix A Data Collection and Data Analysis ProceduresReferences