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At the heart of Rethinking the “Adolescent” in Adolescent Literacy is a call to English language arts teachers to examine the very assumptions of adolescence they may be operating from in order to reimagine new possibilities for engaging students with the English curriculum. Relying on a sociocultural view of adolescence established by scholars in critical youth studies, the book focuses on classrooms from diverse contexts to explain adolescence as a construct and how this perspective of youth can encourage educators to reenvision literacy instruction and learning. Working from and looking beyond Adolescent Literacy: An NCTE Policy Research Brief, the authors explore the “myth” of adolescence and the possibility of a curriculum that positions youth as experts and knowledgeable advocates fully engaged in their own learning.

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Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides is professor of English education at Westfield State University where she teaches young adult literature and methods courses. Her scholarship and teaching focus on interrogating adolescence in young adult literature and in teacher and youth thinking, and the study of race and racism in texts. Robert Petrone earned his Ph.D. in Literacy Education from Michigan State University. He was most recently an Associate Professor and Director of English Education at Montana State University. Unified by a commitment to equity, his work focuses understanding the literacy lives of youth, particularly those from marginalized communities, and his two current projects involve working with Indigenous youth in an alternative school setting and developing a community literacy center with youth in a village in Uganda.

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