Add to ORKGMy dissertation research examines what happens when four middle school boys of African descent (African American and Caribbean American) gather to read a shared text in a series of classroom book clubs. I draw on sociocultural theories of literacy development (Rogoff, Gutierrez, Dyson) that present evidence of the importance of understanding literacy practices in relation to the sociocultural contexts in which literacy events occur. Based on data collected for five months (field notes, interviews, institutional and instructional documents), I consider the situated book club practices from ideological and pedagogical perspectives
A critical issue in teacher education is supporting pre-service teachers in their ability to underst...
This study offers an account of reading clubs as a literacy intervention in a grade 8 English class ...
This study explores a psychosocial concept coined by the author referred to as “Urban Critical Liter...
My dissertation research examines what happens when four middle school boys of African descent (Af...
African American students in urban environments need the support of family, school and community to ...
This dissertation explores how literacy instruction is organized for, taught, and experienced by fiv...
Reading experiences and instruction, on the whole, are unable to mold many African American youth in...
African American students are often at odds with their education. Instead of being viewed as a place...
The number of students who classify as non-readers or students who struggle with reading is dramatic...
Low socio-economic status (SES) African American students are often viewed as lagging behind in lite...
Many African American children bring a communicative style and cultural world view, a cognitive-ling...
A growing number of African American urban adolescents are conceptualized as “disengaged” or “at-ris...
Much has been written about the “boy crisis” in the last two decades in regards to achievement in sc...
The field of literacy studies has seen decades of calls for scholarship and instruction that address...
The focus of this research is to examine the book club as a social context for literacy development....
A critical issue in teacher education is supporting pre-service teachers in their ability to underst...
This study offers an account of reading clubs as a literacy intervention in a grade 8 English class ...
This study explores a psychosocial concept coined by the author referred to as “Urban Critical Liter...
My dissertation research examines what happens when four middle school boys of African descent (Af...
African American students in urban environments need the support of family, school and community to ...
This dissertation explores how literacy instruction is organized for, taught, and experienced by fiv...
Reading experiences and instruction, on the whole, are unable to mold many African American youth in...
African American students are often at odds with their education. Instead of being viewed as a place...
The number of students who classify as non-readers or students who struggle with reading is dramatic...
Low socio-economic status (SES) African American students are often viewed as lagging behind in lite...
Many African American children bring a communicative style and cultural world view, a cognitive-ling...
A growing number of African American urban adolescents are conceptualized as “disengaged” or “at-ris...
Much has been written about the “boy crisis” in the last two decades in regards to achievement in sc...
The field of literacy studies has seen decades of calls for scholarship and instruction that address...
The focus of this research is to examine the book club as a social context for literacy development....
A critical issue in teacher education is supporting pre-service teachers in their ability to underst...
This study offers an account of reading clubs as a literacy intervention in a grade 8 English class ...
This study explores a psychosocial concept coined by the author referred to as “Urban Critical Liter...