Book Description
Situated in a framework of new literacy studies, youth cultural studies, and theories of extracurricular learning, this rich ethnography explores the creative subcultural practices of three teenage boys. Leif Gustavson reveals how teenagers from different racial and class backgrounds become involved with, refine, practice, and learn from three distinctive creative forms: zine writing, graffiti, and turntablism. The book shows how these young men appropriate time and space in school to practice their craft in ways that disrupt the distinction between literacy practice inside and outside of school. Readers will come to understand that subcultural practices allow youth to determine their own learning trajectories, involving communities of practice, rituals, materials, tacit knowledge, performance, improvisation, and evaluation. Developing a respect and understanding of youth-initiated creative practices and their importance in young peoples lives offers educators the opportunity to see how adolescents teach and learn of their own accord.
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Review By Tyler B. Doherty
This book is a must for teachers and scholars alike. Gustavson argues that current educational practice ignores (at best) or actively discourages how youth actually engage creative practices in their daily lives.
Through in-depth ethnographic interviews with three student-artists (a graffiti artist, a 'zine writer, and a turntablist), Gustavson teases out the sophisticated habits of mind and body these youth actively engage while doing their thing. In the process, he provides the reader with useful thumbnail histories of graffiti art, 'zines, and turntablism that help the reader appreciate the deep socio-historical roots of each. More importantly, he shows that far from merely "wasting time" or "vandalizing property" these youth are engaged in real learning as they practice their respective crafts. We ignore how these youth learn "on their own terms" Gustavson argues, at our peril.
A skillful weave of theory and practice, Gustavson not only diagnoses the problem with much contemporary education, but also addresses how we as scholars, educators and adminstrators might change the way we structure our curricula, classrooms and schools to transform them into places of genuine inquiry and learning. In helping us think about how to bridge the gap between learning in and outside of school, Gustavson's book is truly visionary. Check it out and change the way you think about graffiti, 'zines, turntablism and your students forever.
Get A Copy Of "Youth Learning On Their Own Terms: Creative Practices and Classroom Teaching (Critical Youth Studies) By Leif Gustavson"
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Get A Copy Of "Youth Learning On Their Own Terms: Creative Practices and Classroom Teaching (Critical Youth Studies) By Leif Gustavson"
Review By Tyler B. Doherty
This book is a must for teachers and scholars alike. Gustavson argues that current educational practice ignores (at best) or actively discourages how youth actually engage creative practices in their daily lives.
Through in-depth ethnographic interviews with three student-artists (a graffiti artist, a 'zine writer, and a turntablist), Gustavson teases out the sophisticated habits of mind and body these youth actively engage while doing their thing. In the process, he provides the reader with useful thumbnail histories of graffiti art, 'zines, and turntablism that help the reader appreciate the deep socio-historical roots of each. More importantly, he shows that far from merely "wasting time" or "vandalizing property" these youth are engaged in real learning as they practice their respective crafts. We ignore how these youth learn "on their own terms" Gustavson argues, at our peril.
A skillful weave of theory and practice, Gustavson not only diagnoses the problem with much contemporary education, but also addresses how we as scholars, educators and adminstrators might change the way we structure our curricula, classrooms and schools to transform them into places of genuine inquiry and learning. In helping us think about how to bridge the gap between learning in and outside of school, Gustavson's book is truly visionary. Check it out and change the way you think about graffiti, 'zines, turntablism and your students forever.
Get A Copy Of "Youth Learning On Their Own Terms: Creative Practices and Classroom Teaching (Critical Youth Studies) By Leif Gustavson"
