Official Portraits and Unofficial Counterportraits of At Risk Students: Writing Spaces in Hard Times

by Richard J. Meyer

Book Overview

This book chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers - children of gang members, drug users, poor people, and non-documented and documented immigrants - in a rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with the classroom community and spreading outward.

At the heart of this book is the cultivation of tension between official and unofficial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415871247
• ISBN13: 9780415871242
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"