Youth voices : youth radio, literacy, and civic engagement

Author/Creator:

Green, Keisha L.

Publication/Creation:

Thesis Ph.D. Emory University 2011

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Book

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Full Title:

Youth voices : youth radio, literacy, and civic engagement

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Emory University. Department of Educational Studies

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Electronic dissertations
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Electronic books

Description/Summary

Summary:

This study explores the relationship among youth radio, literacy, and civic engagement. Employing ethnographic case study methodology, I examine youth radio production as one of the ways in which black youth critically engage media to resist, reinterpret, or produce counter narratives in an urban Southeastern context. Findings reveal that the youth participants learn about the history of the black radical tradition in the Southeast and develop both critical and media literacy skills that enhance their ability to evaluate, analyze, and critique media messages. Such an exercise in freedom of expression and access to media exceeds the kind of literacy learning expected in public schools where the social, economic, and material inequities further exasperate the urban public school crisis, specifically in the area of language and literacy acquisition.
This study explores the ways in which urban youth are critically engaged in sophisticated learning during pursuits beyond school walls, as they participate in the construction of new media and engage in community action. Understanding the role of urban youth in community contexts is critical to the ways in which language and literacy classroom curriculum and instruction can productively build upon the holistic competencies youth bring to schooling contexts. The examination of youth radio as a space for literacy learning and democratic education provides insight into the ways in which we can address social justice issues in language and literacy education that support multiliteracy and multicultural education outcomes inside the classroom.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (137 pages)

General Note:

Source of abstract: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-10, Section: A, page: 3703.
Advisor: Maisha T. Winn.

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ProQuest digital dissertation copies of Emory dissertations may be downloaded free of charge by Emory faculty, students, and staff unless the author has chosen to embargo the work.

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990031379190302486

ISBN:

9781124766034