What They Don't Learn in School: Literacy in the Lives of Urban Youth (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, V. 2)
«Literacy is all about producing valued meanings from print and other symbol systems. If you haven’t thought about how meaning is produced outside of schools and across multiple cultural sites and practices, then you really haven’t thought about literacy and are in no position to reform schools. ‘What They Don’t Learn in School’, based on the work of Jabari Mahiri, his colleagues, and other leading scholars in the field, is now the best single remedy for overcoming current narrow and harmful perspectives on literacy.» (James Paul Gee, Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin at Madison)«In a provocative and energetic volume, Jabari Mahiri has assembled an impressive team of inquirers who take seriously the expansive and multiple literate behaviors expressed by youth. Destined to be read widely, this book highlights youth agency and suggests how connections can be made between traditional curriculums and the ‘new literacies’.» (Keith Gilyard, Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University and former Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication)