| Youth Learning On Their Own Terms: Creative Practices and Classroom Teaching Contributor(s): Gustavson, Leif (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415954444 ISBN-13: 9780415954440 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: 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 three distinctive creative forms: zine writing, graffiti, and turntablism. The book shows how these young men appropriate time and space in school to practice their craft in ways that disrupt the distinction between literacy practice inside and outside of school. Readers will come to understand that subcultural practices allow youth to determine their own learning trajectories, involving communities of practice, rituals, materials, tacit knowledge, performance, improvisation, and evaluation. Developing a respect and understanding of youth-initiated creative practices and their importance in young peoples lives offers educators the opportunity to see how adolescents teach and learn of their own accord. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Learning Styles - Education | Student Life & Student Affairs |
| Dewey: 428.007 |
| LCCN: 2006100538 |
| Series: Critical Youth Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.34" W x 8.89" (0.63 lbs) 202 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |