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- Title
Reading Grand Theft Auto: Improvisational Urban Literacy.
- Authors
Tanner, Samuel Jaye
- Abstract
This article relies on nonrepresentational narrative research to consider improvisational urban literacy. The author uses narrative to theorize the choice to teach Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in urban high school English classrooms. The author positions this decision as the surprising result of an improvisational, urban literacy pedagogy meant to locate and address issues of race and gender in a video game. This article calls for a broader view of textuality that affirms, supports, and celebrates emergent teacher decision making, as well as practices of urban literacy education that broaden the notion of what constitutes a text.
- Subjects
LITERACY; URBAN education; LITERACY education; READING; RACE
- Publication
Urban Education, 2023, Vol 58, Issue 8, p1827
- ISSN
0042-0859
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0042085920923026