"""You just gotta know how to wear it"": A study of high school students' style practices"

Drawing on sociocultural and critical approaches to language and literacy and taking aesthetic experiences to be characterized by the simultaneous stimulation of one’s senses and emotions, this project identifies style practices as a kind of literacy that is particularly illustrative of the inherent aesthetic nature of literacy. Further, it examines how style practices figure in to the identity negotiations of youth. The project features the reported style practices of three students in a high school in a small urban community, examining the ways that the communicative and aesthetic natures of their style practices contribute to their identity negotiation practices.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Curriculum and Instruction

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Dahlke, Ellen

Contributors dc:contributor

• Willis, Arlette I.

• literacy
• aesthetics
• youth

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2014 Ellen Dahlke

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49456

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/49456