ERIC Number: EJ963783
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0965-0792
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"Niggaz Dyin' Don't Make No News": Exploring the Intellectual Work of an African American Urban Adolescent Boy in an After-School Program
Staples, Jeanine M.
Educational Action Research, v20 n1 p55-73 2012
In this article, and from the standpoint of an African American woman teacher/researcher, the author explores what happened when one African American adolescent boy known inside of school as a "severely disengaged" student cultivated literacy practices and events of his own volition in an after-school program. The author asks, how does race and gender consciousness intersect one African American urban adolescent boy's engagements with a favored popular culture narrative after school? Race and gender consciousness, in the context of this study, refers to the ways individuals and/or groups publicize, illustrate, critically articulate and/or question race and gender constructs stated or suggested in various texts. The author argues that students' race and gender consciousness speak to and intermingle with intellectual work and literate abilities; further, the author argues that attention to such work and consciousness provides valuable information about the aptitude, sensitivities and motivations of students who are labeled "disengaged" and/or socially "challenged" in multiple contexts. As a result, this research speaks to an international audience because it conveys the processes by which engagements with texts can spur intellectual work by a student placed at risk of academic and social failure.
Descriptors: African American Students, School Activities, Popular Culture, After School Programs, Urban Areas, Teacher Attitudes, Literacy, Race, Gender Differences, Critical Thinking, Academic Ability, Interpersonal Competence, At Risk Students, Reader Text Relationship, Academic Failure, Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Learner Engagement, High School Students, Films, Teaching Methods, Males
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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