Performing Literacy: A Narrative Inquiry into Performance Pedagogy in a Marginalized Community - Softcover

Nzinga, Ayodele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659673587 ISBN 13: 9783659673580

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

This work was conducted in West Oakland CA, it examines the problem of increasing drop-out rates among North American African students in the United States. It examines the literature that supports theories of non-intellectualism, and offers alternative interpretations of the data that support these theories, i.e., the concepts of hexis and habitus are viewed as contributing factors to the alienation and disengagement of youth of color in marginalized communities, as well as the disparity in treatment of these students, in relationship to their white counterparts. The work interrogates the North American African relationship with English, being the sole ethnic group to enter America without language, and considers the existential elements which attend linguicide followed by educational apartheid. Informed by theories of culturally relevant pedagogies, multiple literacies, the author’s experience with performance and the public school system; this work offers a collection of narratives that help to explore the relationship between marginalization and literacy.

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About the Author

Ayodele Nzinga holds an MFA in Writing and Conciousness from New College of California at San Francisco, and a PhD in Transformative Learning and Change from the California Institute of Integral Studies at San Francisco, CA. She sustains herself as a theater director, theater producer, perfoming artist, and writer living in Oakland, CA. USA

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659673587
• ISBN 13: 9783659673580
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244