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- Title
Praisesongs of Place: Youth Envisioning Space and Place in a Literacy and Songwriting Initiative.
- Authors
Watson, Vaughn W. M.; Beymer, Alecia
- Abstract
We analyze the interplay of youth enacting multiliteracies across three contexts of spaces and places: youths' journal writing; the social and physical setting of Community Music School, where the after-school Verses Project took place; and the social and geographical setting of the city of Detroit. We construct a framework built on theoretical perspectives situating youths' multiliteracies activities as social practices. Participants were emboldened to draw upon their pasts toward present and future action-taking, by writing across a genre we call praisesongs of place. Our data sources included observations, ethnographic field notes, curriculum-planning meeting notes, transcribed focus-group interviews, researcher memos, and multimodal artifacts including participants' songs and writing notebooks. Our analysis involved contextualizing youths' community-based multiliteracies practices as extending meanings of spaces and places across two themes inviting contemporary meanings of praisesongs of place: youth constructing tributes to their city, and youth envisioning strengths in communities. Our findings support English teachers and others in designing curriculum and teaching practices toward the ongoing work of envisioning teaching and learning as extending within and beyond classrooms.
- Subjects
YORUBA laudatory poetry; SONGWRITING; LITERACY; JOURNAL writing; YOUTH
- Publication
Research in the Teaching of English, 2019, Vol 53, Issue 4, p297
- ISSN
0034-527X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.58680/rte201930140