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Literacy Practices for African-American Male Adolescents: The Student at the Center Series

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Focusing on African-American males, the author describes how current school literacy practices and policies are overly generic and miss the mark. Placing student-centered learning in the context of race and gender, this paper reviews literature on factors

Published oct. 30, 2013
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Focusing on African-American males, the author describes how current school literacy practices and policies are overly generic and miss the mark.  Placing student-centered learning in the context of race and gender, this paper reviews literature on factors that impede reading achievement, provides a socio-historical perspective for advancing African-American male literacy, proposes a framework of literacy instruction, and discusses implications for research, policy, and practice.

Click below to watch a brief video of an interview with the paper's author, Alfred Tatum.

 

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