Crossing Boundaries--Teaching and Learning with Urban Youth

by Valerie Kinloch

Book Overview

In her new book, Valerie Kinloch, award-winning author of Harlem on Our Minds, 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 rejects deficit models that have traditionally defined the literacy abilities of students of color, especially African American and Latino/a youth. In contrast, she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807752959
• ISBN13: 9780807752951
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 145 Pages