Crossing Boundaries - Teaching and Learning With Urban Youth

Informationen zum Autor Valerie Kinloch is associate professor in literacy studies at The Ohio State University. In addition to her other books, she has recently published Urban Literacies: Critical Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Community and Harlem on Our Minds: Place, Race, and the Literacies of Urban Youth. She received the 2025 AERA Scholars of Color Distinguished Career Contribution Award. Klappentext Sheds light on the ways urban youth engage in meaning-making experiences as a way to assert critical, creative, and highly sophisticated perspectives on teaching, learning, and survival. Kinloch uses a critical teacher-researcher lens to propose new directions for youth literacies and achievements. The text features examples of classroom engagements, student writings and presentations, discussions of texts and current events, and conversations on skills, process, achievement, and underachievement.

Product details

• Authors: Valerie Kinloch, Valerie/ Heath Kinloch
• Assisted by: William Ayers (Editor), Therese Quinn (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2012
• EAN: 9780807752944
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5294-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Teaching for Social Justice (P; Teaching for Social Justice Series; Teaching for Social Justice; The Teaching for Social Justice Series; Teaching for Social Justice (P
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries