Youth Learning On Their Own Terms
Creative Practices and Classroom Teaching
Price: $130.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-95443-3
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 12th March 2007
- Pages: 200
About the Book
Situated in a framework of new literacy studies, youth cultural studies, and theories of extracurricular learning, this rich ethnography explores the creative subcultural practices of three teenage boys. Leif Gustavson reveals how teenagers from different racial and class backgrounds become involved with, refine, practice, and learn from distinctive creative forms: zine writing, graffiti, and turntablism. Youth Learning On Their Own Terms convincingly shows how developing a respect and understanding of the youth-initiated creative practices that occur outside schools can offer educators the opportunity to directly influence their teaching in schools by making classroom spaces personally meaningful and rigorous for both students and teachers.
Reviews
"The current culture of distrust that permeates public schooling has created learning environments that are neither personal nor meaningful. In response, Leif Gustavson suggests a humanistic plan of action based upon compassion and choice."
--Teacher's College Record, February 14, 2008
Table of Contents
1. Multiple Writing (Con)texts: Learning from the Writing Life of a Zine Maker 2. The Shifting Creative Practices of a Puerto Rican-American Youth 3. Scratching, Cutting, and Juggling: Turntablist as 21st Century Scholar 4. Teaching and Learning: A Shared Practice
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