17.575, Books: Applied Ling/Socioling: Smith, Whitmore

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Date: 31-Jan-2006
From: Elizabeth Gangeri < Elizabeth.Gangeri at erlbaum.com >
Subject: Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and
Juvenile Court Communities: Smith, Whitmore 

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:57:45
From: Elizabeth Gangeri < Elizabeth.Gangeri at erlbaum.com >
Subject: Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities: Smith, Whitmore 

Title: Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and
Juvenile Court Communities 
Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
	   http://www.erlbaum.com/

Author: Debra Smith, Northeastern State University
Author: Kathryn F. Whitmore, University of Iowa

Hardback: ISBN: 080585598X Pages: 224 Price: U.S. $ 69.95
Paperback: ISBN: 0805855998 Pages: 224 Price: U.S. $ 24.50

Abstract:

The goal of this book is to encourage educators and researchers to
understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to
rethink their assumptions about these students in school. The particular
objective is to situate four gang members as literate, caring students from
loving families whose identities and literacy keep them on the margins of
school. The research described in this book suggests that advocacy is a
particularly effective form of critical ethnography. Smith and Whitmore
argue that until schools, as communities of practice, enable children and
adolescents to retain identities from the communities in which they are
full community members, frightening numbers of students are destined to fail.

The stories of four Mexican American male adolescents, who were active
members of a gang and Smith's students in an alternative high school
program, portray the complicated, multiple worlds in which these boys live.
As sons and teenage parents they live in a family community; as CRIP
members they live in a gang community; as "at risk" students, drop-outs,
and graduates they live in a school community, and as a result of their
illegal activities they live in the juvenile court community. The authors
theorize about the boys' literacy in each of their communities. Literacy is
viewed as ideological, related to power, and embedded in a sociocultural
context. Vivid examples of conversation, art, tagging, rap, poetry, and
other language and literacy events bring the narratives to life in figures
and photographs in all the chapters. Readers will find this book engaging
and readable, yet thought provoking and challenging.

Audiences for "Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School,
and Juvenile Court Communities" include education researchers,
professionals, and students in the areas of middle/high school education,
at-risk adolescent psychology, and alternative community
programs--specifically those interested in literacy education,
sociocultural theory, and popular culture. 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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