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PUBLICATIONS
Reviewed & Recommended Publications
These publications are written by educators and are researched based.
Reading Don't Fix No Chevys By Michael W. Smith & Jeffrey D. Wilhelm |
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Quote from foreword.
The great strength of this book is the way it takes us beyond these stereotypes. We can listen to the young men in this study speak at length about their passions for professional wrestling, sports, computer games, comics, trade magazines and their deep pleasure in social interaction with friends. We also can enter into the logic of their resistance to much that school, and English classes, ask of them.
| Misreading Masculinity Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture by Dr. Thomas Newkirk |
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If reading is our future, then Thomas Newkirk's research provides the compass for directing it. Rather than frowning on popular culture, Newkirk seizes it and illustrates how boys' imaginations are a positive pathway to follow. Linking "Plato and Batman, Rousseau and Britney Spears, Beowulf and Jackass"(xviii) , Newkirk presents imaginative parallels to literacy. Popular culture and the visual media can transform literacy. It is time to stop misreading masculinity and start talking to its dynamic voice. Newkirk reawakens this conversation with startling results—boys can read and enjoy it. Exploration begins with a compass and the tool is within our grasp.
| teenage boys and high school english by Bruce Pirie |
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quote from foreword
In my recent visits to high school English classes across our country, I’ve
noticed disturbing trends that confirm our growing concern about the match
between our current literacy instructional practices and the interests and
achievement of adolescent males. Advanced Placement or “college bound” English
classes are too frequently primarily female, while ”remedial” reading classes
are disproportionately filled with boys. What is it about our practices and
our curricula that have failed to engage half of the student population? And,
what can we do to stem the negative discourse that has become commonplace
when people speak of teenage boys and high school English?
