Discourse Wars in Gotham-West : A Latino Immigrant Urban Tale of Resistance and Agency.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Studying Critical Student Agency -- The Challenge and a Radical Solution -- This Study -- The Organization of This Book -- Notes -- References -- 2 Building the Case for Critical Student Agency: Neo-Marxism, Poststructuralism, Critical Pedagogy and Discourse -- Gramsci: Agency through Counter-Hegemonic Action -- Foucault and Poststructuralism: Positioning Subjects and Challenging Agency -- Critical Pedagogical Theory: Agency In and Out of Classrooms -- Freirean Pedagogical Practice: Striving For Agency, Creating Change -- A Focus on Discourse: Searching for Agency in Everyday Practices and Talk -- Notes -- References -- 3 Contextualizing the Study en la Vida Cotidiana -- A Community-Based Research Project -- Windows on the Site: The Data -- The Foci of Analyses -- From the Theory and Data: Analytical Codes -- Pilot Study -- Final Comments on the Methodology -- Notes -- References -- 4 Accepting the Word and the World: Accommodating Hegemony -- The Students and The Classroom -- Critical Student Agency Postponed: The Co-Construction of a Hegemonic Discourse Community -- Notes -- References -- 5 Reading the Word through the World: Constructing a Counter-Hegemony -- The Students and The Classroom -- The Gradual Emergence of Agency Through the Co-Construction of a Counter-Hegemonic Discourse Community -- Notes -- References -- 6 Creating the World through the Word: Practicing Counter-Hegemony -- The Students and The Classroom -- Critical Student Agency Maintained: Practicing Counter-Hegemony -- Notes -- References -- 7 Implications for Real Life: Critical Pedagogy and Student Agency -- Beyond a "Critical Vocabulary -- Parts of a Whole: Teachers and Students in Critical Social Practice.

Academic and Sociopolitical Forms of Critical Student Agency -- What Role Gender? -- Critical Agentive Growth: Product of Critical Social Practices or Just "Learning"? -- Future Criticalist Research -- Critical Pedagogical Theory, Research and Teaching -- Notes -- References -- Afterword -- Appendices -- Index.

This book is one of the few scholarly works on critical pedagogy that makes use of empirical data in the specific context of analyzing both academic and sociopolitical articulations of critical student agency and agentive growth of Latino immigrant students.

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