Description:
Distinguished by its weaving together of theory and practice, Critical Literacy and Urban Youth offers an interrogation of critical theory developed from the author's work with young people in classrooms, neighborhoods, and institutions of power.
Review Quotes:
"Morrell challenges preservice and practicing teachers to embrace complex ideas in order to improve their classroom practice, especially if they want their students to become critical and engaged citizens of our nation and world.... Critical Literacy and Urban Youth is a passionate book, elegantly written and beautifully developed. Drawing on the ideas of Paulo Freire, Morrell makes no apologies for believing in and trusting both students and teachers. For him, writing and indeed all literacies, are practices of freedom. Confident that teachers can create classrooms and schools that are critical, lively, and hopeful spaces, he provides teachers and those about to enter the profession with inspiration."--Sonia Nieto, From the Foreword
"... an exciting, edgy new book of real interest to contemporary graduate students and researchers in cultural studies and critical literacy. Morrell is clearly doing landmark work in critical literacy with urban youth."--Tom Bean, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States