Writing Superheroes: Contemporary Childhood, Popular Culture, and Classroom Literacy (Language and Literacy Series)
By Anne Haas Dyson.
Description
Based on an ethnographic study in an urban classroom of seven to nine-year-olds, this work examines how young school children use popular culture, especially superhero stories, in the unofficial peer social world and in the official school literary curriculum. In one sense, this work is about children "writing superheroes" - about children appropriating superhero stories in their fiction writing and dramatic play on the playground and in the classroom. These stories offer children identities as powerful people who do battle against evil and win. The stories, however, also reveal l...
ISBN(s)
0807736392, 9780807736395
