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 author s work with young people in classrooms, neighborhoods, and institutions of power.

Table of Contents ForewordPrefaceChapter 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