Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement

"It's time to move beyond the new literacies rhetoric. Theresa Rogers and her colleagues' intervention models how new public pedagogies can make a difference for homeless youth and for their urban Canadian communities. It is grounded, powerful and politically important work". Allan Luke, Emeritus Professor - Queensland University of Technology, Australia "The authors should be commended for shedding light on the passion and desire to address social inequalities of marginalized youth through civic engagement and popular culture while embracing a multidisciplinary approach to critical literacy practices of contemporary youth." Laurie Henry, University of Kentucky, USA "The arts change the world by bringing to voice one person, then another. Soon, one hopes, we will all be singing.... We are lucky these young artists are speaking and that the authors have made it possible for us to hear them." Therese Quinn, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Theresa Rogers is Professor, Language & Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada. Kari-Lynn Winters is Associate Professor of Drama Education, Brock University, Canada. Mia Perry is Director of Research at the ecl foundation and based in Scotland, U.K. Anne-Marie LaMonde is Instructor, Teacher Education, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Contents Foreword Donna Alvermann Preface 1. Youth Literacies: Arts, Media, and Critical Literacy Practices as Civic Engagement 2. Shouting from the Street: Youth, Homelessness and Zining Practices 3. Leaving Out Violence: Talking Back to the Community through Film 4. Performing Adolescence: Staging Bodies in Motion 5. Youth Claims in a Global City: Texts, Discourses, and Spaces of Youth Literacies Appendix: Descriptions of Arts Pedagogical Practices with Youth Index