Critical Literacy and Urban Youth: Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation

by Ernest Morrell

Book Overview

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. Through cases, an articulated process, and a theory of literacy education and social change, Morrell extends the conversation among literacy educators about what constitutes critical literacy while also examining implications for practice in secondary and postsecondary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805856641
• ISBN13: 9780805856644
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"