Critical Youth Studies Reader: Preface by Paul Willis

488 Pages·2014·6.32 MB·English

by  Awad Ibrahim, Shirley R. Steinberg

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CRITICAL YOUTH STUDIES
READER
Edited by Awad Ibrahim
and Shirley R. Steinberg
LINDSAY HUTTON, ASSISTANT EDITOR
PREFACE BY PAUL WILLIS
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Critical youth studies reader / [edited by] Awad Ibrahim, Shirley R. Steinberg.
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Includes bibliographical references.
1. Youth—History. 2. Youth—Research.
I. Ibrahim, Awad. II. Steinberg, Shirley R.
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About the editors
Awad Ibrahim is professor of Education, University of Ottawa. He is a curriculum theorist with special
interest in cultural studies, Hip Hop, youth, and Black popular culture, social foundations (philosophy,
history, and sociology of education), social justice and community service learning, diasporic and continental
African identities, ethnography, and applied linguistics. He has researched and published widely in these
areas. Among his books are The Rhizome of Blackness: A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language,
Identity and the Politics of Becoming (Peter Lang, 2014); Provoking Curriculum Studies: Strong Poetry and the Arts
of the Possible (2014) with Nicholas Ng-A-Fook and Giuliano Reis; Global Linguistic Flows: Hip-Hop Cultures,
Youth Identities and the Politics of Language (2009) with Samy Alim and Alastair Pennycook.
Shirley R. Steinberg is research chair and professor of Youth Studies and director of The Werklund
Foundation Centre for Youth Leadership in Education at the University of Calgary. Her most recent books
include: Critical Qualitative Research Reader (2012); Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood
(2011); Teaching Against Islamophobia (2011); 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City (2010); and the award-
winning Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia with Priya Parmar and Birgit Richard
(2005). She is a national columnist for CTV News Channel’s Culture Shock and a regular contributor to CBC
Radio One, CTV, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and the Canadian press. The organizer
of The International Institute for Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Leadership, she is committed to a
global community of transformative educators and community workers engaged in social justice, and the
situating of power within social and cultural contexts. Freireproject.org
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About the book
This reader begins a conversation about the many aspects of critical youth studies. Chapters in this volume
consider essential issues such as class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural capital, and schooling in
creating a dialogue about and a conversation with youth. In a society that continues to devalue, demonize, and
pathologize young women and men, leading names in the academy and youth communities argue that
traditional studies of youth do not consider young people themselves. Engaging with today’s young adults in
formal and informal pedagogical settings as an act of respect, social justice, and transgression creates a critical
pedagogical path in which to establish a meaningful twenty-first century critical youth studies.
“Material and social conditions change at a colossal pace everywhere. This book gives a wide panoramic view.
We face a bewildering new world of contradictory influences, profound crises of the old and tumultuous birth
of the new. Through what cultural mediations does the necessary now connect with the voluntary under new
conditions and at multiple sites across the world?
Critical practices and methodologies, reflexive and comparative theoretical work and debate as offered in
this book offer a grounds for understanding the human unfoldings of this colossal historical canvas from the
position of youth.” —From the preface by Paul Willis, author of Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids
Get Working Class Jobs
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← iv | v →Contents
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Preface
Paul Willis
Foreword: Criticalizing Youth, Youth Criticalizing
Shirley R. Steinberg
Critical Youth Studies: An Introduction
Awad Ibrahim
PART I
HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY EPISTEMOLOGIES OF CRITICAL YOUTH STUDIES
1 Toward a Critical Theory of Youth
Douglas Kellner
2 Theorizing Young Lives: Biography, Society, and Time
Kate Tilleczek
3 Historicizing Youth Studies
Susan Talburt and Nancy Lesko
4 The Symbolism of Cool in Adolescence and Youth Culture
Marcel Danesi
5 Becoming Revolutionaries: Toward Non-Teleological and Non-Normative Notions of Youth Growth
Michael O’Loughlin and P. Taylor Van Zile IV
6 Youth: Multiple Connectivities, New Temporalities,and Early Nostalgia
Suzana Feldens Schwertner and Rosa Maria Bueno Fischer
7 An ‘Evolving Criticality’ in Youth and/or Student Voice in Schools in Hardening Neoliberal Times
John Smyth
8 Foot Soldiers of Modernity: The Dialectics of Cultural Consumption and the 21st Century School
Paul Willis
9 No Bailouts for Youth: Broken Promises and Dashed Hopes
Henry A. Giroux
← v | vi →PART II
IDENTITIES: A MÉTISSAGE BETWEEN INDIGENEITY, LGBTQ, WHITENESS, AND DIASPORA
10 Abandoning Pathologization: Conceptualizing Indigenous Youth Identity as Flowing from
Communitarian Understandings
Dwayne Donald and Mandy Krahn
11 See Me, Hear Me: Engaging With Australian Aboriginal Youth and Their Lifeworlds
Jill Guy and Jon Austin
12 ‘It Gets Better’: Queer Youth and the History of the “Problem of the Homosexual” in Public Education
Dennis Carlson
13 Cross-Cultural Reflections on Gender Diversity in the Earliest Stages of Youth Identity Formation
Cathryn Teasley
14 Moving an Anti-Bullying Stance Into Schools: Supporting the Identities of Transgender and Gender
Variant Youth
sj Miller
15 Reading the Wallpaper: Disrupting Performances of Whiteness in the Blog, “Stuff White People Like”
Nichole E. Grant and Timothy J. Stanley
16 Targeted by the Crosshairs: Student Voices on Colonialism, Racism, and Whiteness as Barriers to
Educational Equity
Virginia Lea with Maria Sylvia Edouard-Gundowry
17 Politics of Urban Diasporized Youth and Possibilities for Belonging
Marlon Simmons
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18 Conocimiento: Mixtec Youth sin fronteras
Fabiola Martinez and Elizabeth Quintero
19 From Hijabi to Ho-jabi: Voguing the Hijab and the Politics Behind an Emerging Subculture
Saba Alvi
PART III
CULTURES:NAVIGATING MEDIA AND IDENTITIES, SPORTS, TECHNOLOGY, AND MUSIC
20 Living Hyph-E-Nations: Marginalized Youth, Social Networking,and Third Spaces
Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Linda Radford, and Tasha Ausman
21 A Fat Woman’s Story of Body-Image Politics and the Weighty Discourses of Magnification and
Minimization
Susan Beierling
22 “Breaking” Stereotypes: How Are Youth With Disability Represented in Mainstream Media?
Dana Hasson
23 She’s the Man: Deconstructing the Gender and Sexuality Curriculum at “Hollywood High”
Elizabeth J. Meyer
24 Learning Filipino Youth Identities: Positive Portrayals or Stifling Stereotypes?
Eloise Tan
25 Surprising Representations of Youth in Saved! and Loving Annabelle
Kerri Mesner and Carl Leggo
26 “He Seemed Like Such a Nice Guy”: Youth, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Media
Lynn Corcoran
27 We Don’t Need Another Hero: Captaining in Youth Sport ← vi | vii →
Tracy D. Keats
28 Decolonizing Sport-Based Youth Development
Renee K. L. Wikaire and Joshua I. Newman
29 Posthuman(ist) Youth: Control, Play, and Possibilities
Nathan Snaza and John A. Weaver
30 Mediated Youth, Curriculum,and Cyberspace: Pivoting the In-Between
Donyell L. Roseboro
31 Why Is My Champion so “Hot”?: Gender Performance in the Online Video Game League of Legends
Kelsey Catherine Schmitz
32 Machinima: Gamers Start Playing Director
Robert Jones
33 Hip Hop Pedagogies in/for Transformation of Youth Identities: A Pilot Project
Angel Lin
34 Punk Rock, Hip Hop, and the Politics of Human Resistance: Reconstituting the Social Studies Through
Critical Media Literacy
Curry Malott and Brad Porfilio
35 The Breaking (Street Dance) Cipher: A Shared Context for Knowledge Creation
Haidee Smith Lefebvre
PART IV
PRAXIS: PEDAGOGIES AND SCHOOLING, KIDS NOT TALKED ABOUT, AND ACTIVISM
36 Redefining the Notion of Youth: Contextualizing the Possible for Transformative Youth Leadership
Shirley R. Steinberg
37 Cultural Studies of Youth Culture Aesthetics as Critical Aesthetic Education
Michael B. MacDonald
38 “Too Young for the Marches but I Remember These Drums”: Recommended Pedagogies for Hip Hop–
Based Education and Youth Studies
Bettina L. Love
39 No Bystanders in Authentic Assessment: Critical Pedagogies for Youth Empowerment
Valerie J. Janesick
40 Schools as Prisons: Normative Youth Pedagogies
P. L. Thomas
41 Youth Writing: Rage Against the Machine
Jeff Park
42 I hope I don’t see you tomorrow
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L. A. Gabay
43 Where Are the Mockingjays? The Commodification of Monstrous Children and Rebellion
William M. Reynolds
44 Youth against the Wall
Donna Gaines
45 Reclaiming Our Public Spaces: Wall of Femmes as a Grassroots, Feminist,Social Action Project
Michelle Harazny, Lisa Sproull, and Cat Terleski
46 From a Culture of Refusal to a Culture of Renewal: ← vii | viii → Criticalizing Muslim Youths’ Lives
Through Calls to Collective Action
Brett Elizabeth Blake and Rohany Nayan
47 LGBTQ Youth and the Hidden Curriculum of Citizenship Education: A “Day of Silence” in a Suburban
High School
Joe Wegwert
48 Epistemology of Emancipation: Contemporary Student Movements and the Politics of Knowledge
Noah De Lissovoy
About the Contributors
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