Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out of Schools<BR> Foreword by Carol D. Lee (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education)

"Youth Poets documents an ethnographic study of the literacy learning of urban high school youth in June Jordan's Poetry for the People program. The book emphasizes how seven students adopted empowering literacies as they read, wrote, published, and performed poetry in and outside of school. Using a sociocultural and critical framework on literacy and pedagogy, the book focuses on the experiences of urban youth-from their own perspectives - to examine the various processes, products, and practices associated with poetry. It contributes to current research on literacy pedagogy in urban contexts, and further grounds connections between poetry production and academic and critical literacies. Not only does the research presented here support the use of poetry in itself, but it makes a case for the ways in which poetry can lead to transformative possibilities in diverse and multicultural classrooms."--BOOK JACKET.Korina M. Jocson is the author of 'Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out of Schools
Foreword by Carol D. Lee (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education)', published 2008 under ISBN 9780820481968 and ISBN 0820481963.