"""Real Talk"": The Participation of African American and Caribbean American Young Men in a Middle School Book Club"

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Secondary & Continuing Educ

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Parker, Kimberly N.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Willis, Arlette I.
• Dyson, Anne H.
• Harris, Violet J.
• DeNicolo, Christina P.
• Perry, Theresa

• African American
• Caribbean American
• males
• boys
• book clubs
• reading
• literacy

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2010 Kimberly N. Parker

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18290

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/18290