Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement: Arts, Media, and Literacy in the Lives of Adolescents

by Mia Perry, Anne-Marie Lamonde, Theresa Rogers, et al.

Book Overview

Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today's culture in which literacy practices reflect important cultural messages about the interplay of local and global civic engagement. The focus is on three areas of youth civic engagement and cultural critique: homelessness, violence,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138017442
• ISBN13: 9781138017443
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"