Today’s youth live in the interface of the local and the global. Research is documenting how a world youth culture is developing, how global migration is impacting youth, how global capitalism is changing their economic and vocational futures, and how computer-mediated communication with the world is changing the literacy needs and identities of students. This book explores the dynamic range of literacy practices that are reconstructing gender identities in both empowering and disempowering ways and the implications for local literacy classrooms. As gendered identities become less essentialist, are more often created in virtual settings, and are increasingly globalized, literacy educators need to understand these changes in order to effectively educate their students.
The volume is organized around three themes:
gender influences and identities in literacy and literature;
gender influences and identities in new literacies practices; and
gender and literacy issues and policies.
The contributing authors, from North America, Europe, and Australia offer an international perspective on literacy issues and practices. This volume is an important contribution to understanding the impact of the local and the global on how today’s youth are represented and positioned in literacy practices and polices within the context of 21st century global/cosmopolitan life.
Contents
Part I: Gender Influences and Identities in Literacy and Literature
Chapter 1: Outside Interest and Literate Practices as Contexts for Increasing Engagement and Critical Reading for Adolescent Boys, William G. Brozo
Chapter 2: Taking Patriarchy to Task: Youth, YouTube, and Young Adult Literature, Karen A. Krasny
Chapter 3: Masculinity and Portrayals of African-American Boys in Young Adult Literature: A Critical Deconstruction and Reconstruction of this Genre, Thomas W. Bean and Theodore Ransaw
Chapter 4: One World: Understanding the Discourse of Benevolent Girrough Critical Media Literacy, Elizabeth Marshall and Ozlem Sensoy
Part II: Gender Influences and Identities in New Literacies Practices
Chapter 5: The Image You Choose is the Avatar You Use: Re-thinking Gender in New Literacies, Guy Merchant
Chapter 6: Girls’ Zines as a Global Literacy Practice: Stories of Resistance and Representation, Barbara J. Guzzetti
Chapter 7: Literacies, Identities and Gender: Reframing Girls in Digital Worlds, Cheryl A.McLean
Chapter 8: Entrepreneurship Education and Gendered Discursive Practices, Donna E. Alvermann
Chapter 9: A Cautionary Tale: Online School Book Clubs Are No Panacea for African- American Adolescent Females’ Coming to Voice, Benita R. Dillard
Chapter 10: Gender, Multimodal Practices, and Global Citizenship in Rural Settings,Carla K. Meyer and Leslie Susan Cook
Chapter 11: A New Look at Girls, Gaming, and Literacies, Elisabeth Hayes
Part III: Gender and Literacy: Issues and Policies...
