Full Description
This book is the representation of a narrative inquiry conducted with five ninth grade boys that were identified as displaying multiple literacies, looking specifically at how these boys storied their literate identities. After the stories were collected, the author conducted several negotiation sessions with the boys and their parents at the school, as well as in their homes. These negotiations facilitated a methodological concept that the book terms distillation: an interim step for determining which narratives in an inquiry are emblematic. Several lenses for conceptualizing the stories of these boys were made evident during the research. An analysis of the collected stories revealed that the boys' stories moved beyond current conceptions of either identity or literacy alone and instead offered a way of defining literate identity as simultaneously being and doing literacy. In light of this definition, the boys' stories revealed plotlines that together described literate identity as a form of capital. The question of how the boys story themselves, the original research question, is ultimately answered using a meta-narrative, or archetype, where a hero distributes a boon, or gift to his society. The implications for this research include a need to examine classroom space in order to facilitate the deployment of literate identity capital, as well as space for living out the meta-narratives that these boys are composing.
Contents
Acknowledgments.
Foreword.
Note to Readers: Narrative Representations of Narrative Inquiry Research.
Preface: Narrative Inquiry Hemstitches in this Research.
Chapter 1 Literacy as a Game and its Players.
Chapter 2 Dual Role Negotiation as Teacher and Researcher.
Chapter 3 Shifting Tensions in Boys' Stories to Live by About Literacy.
Chapter 4 Literate Identity as Edible Capital.
Chapter 5 Comedic Integration in Boys' Stories of their Literacies.
Chapter 6 Spaces for Composing Literate Narratives.
Chapter 7 Boys' Stories as a Practical Part of Classroom Life.
Adolescent Boys' Literate Identity.
Advances in Research on Teaching.
Advances in Research on Teaching.
Copyright page.
Afterword.
References.
