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Reading and relevance, reimagined

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Celebrating the literacy lives of young men of color

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"Through conversations with six young men, which took place across ten years - beginning when they were attending a single-sex middle school in New York City - this book defines, and therefore reconceptualizes with nuance, the term relevance as it applies to and is applied within (literacy) education contexts. Four dimensions of relevance - Identity, Spatiality, Temporality, and Ideology - are introduced as a means for guiding educators in supporting the reading experiences of students in ways that do not essentialize them or treat them as racial, ethnic, gender, or other monoliths. Framing relevance from a student-centered perspective, as the condition of being practically, socially, and/or conceptually applicable to one's life, this book aims to disrupt problematic enactments of relevance in literacy spaces - enactments rooted in assumptions about who young people are, culturally or otherwise, as well as how they think and maneuver through the spaces and times comprising their worlds"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Identity -- Identity, identification, and relevance -- Identity and relevance: In the young men's words -- The young men's interiorities/subjectivities-personal experiences -- The young men's collectivities-race, ethnicity, and gender -- Identity and disruptive relevance -- Spatiality -- Place, space, and spatiality -- Spatiality and all boys academy: Textual relevance in a space -- Intended for young men of color -- Spatiality beyond ABA: Textual relevance in predominantly white spaces -- Spatiality and disruptive relevance -- Temporality -- Time, temporality, and world-articulation -- Textual relevance then, now, and In between -- Ideology -- Ideology, the world, and textual relevance -- Ideology and the young men's literacy lives -- Ideology as world-articulation -- Reading and relevance, reimagined: A finale and a beginning -- Four dimensions of relevance: Intersections and disruptions -- Textual relevance as a means of critical mobility -- Multiple possibilities for every book: The power of a multidimensional approach to relevance.

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Sciurba, Katie. Reading and relevance, reimagined

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:16:42.204230+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23730667

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
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  • Description language: eng
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