"""Real Talk"": The Participation of African American and Caribbean American Young Men in a Middle School Book Club"
Parker, Kimberly N.
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Title
"""Real Talk"": The Participation of African American and Caribbean American Young Men in a Middle School Book Club"
Author(s)
Parker, Kimberly N.
Issue Date
2011-01-14T22:44:59Z
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Willis, Arlette I.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Willis, Arlette I.
Committee Member(s)
Dyson, Anne H.
Harris, Violet J.
DeNicolo, Christina P.
Perry, Theresa
Department of Study
Curriculum & Instruction
Discipline
Secondary & Continuing Educ
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
African American
Caribbean American
males
boys
book clubs
reading
literacy
Abstract
My dissertation research examines what happens when four middle school boys
of African descent (African American and Caribbean American) gather to read a shared text in a series of classroom book clubs. I draw
on sociocultural theories of literacy development (Rogoff, Gutierrez, Dyson) that present
evidence of the importance of understanding literacy practices in relation to the
sociocultural contexts in which literacy events occur. Based on data collected for five
months (field notes, interviews, institutional and instructional documents), I consider the
situated book club practices from ideological and pedagogical perspectives.
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