David E. Low

Transgressive Humor in Classrooms

Punching Up, Punching Down, and Critical Literacy Practices

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Produktbeschreibung

David Low examines the multifaceted role of humor in critical literacy studies. Talking about how teachers and students negotiate understandings of humor and social critique vis-à-vis school-based critical literacy curriculums, the book co-examines teachers' and students' understandings of humor and critique in schools.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781032371412
• ISBN-10: 1032371412
• Artikelnr.: 69992291

Autorenporträt

David E. Low is an associate professor of literacy education at California State University, Fresno, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Prologue: Stop Me If You've Heard This One 1. The Gremlin's Work
in the World 2. Humor as a Tool for Sensemaking and Nonsense-Making: The
Doubly Obligatory Chapter 3. Punching Up and Punching Down: A Sorta
Conceptual Framework 4. "A Most Strange Revision": Gremlins, Transgressive
Humor, and Critique in/of School 5. Fight the Power! (This Message Brought
to You by the Power): Teachers, Transgressive Humor, and Framings of
Critical Literacy 6. Dehumanizing Humor as a Catalyst for Institutional
Reckoning 7. No Laughing Matter?: Rupturing the Solemnity of Critical
Literacy Education Acknowledgments

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Foreword Prologue: Stop Me If You've Heard This One 1. The Gremlin's Work in the World 2. Humor as a Tool for Sensemaking and Nonsense-Making: The Doubly Obligatory Chapter 3. Punching Up and Punching Down: A Sorta Conceptual Framework 4. "A Most Strange Revision": Gremlins, Transgressive Humor, and Critique in/of School 5. Fight the Power! (This Message Brought to You by the Power): Teachers, Transgressive Humor, and Framings of Critical Literacy 6. Dehumanizing Humor as a Catalyst for Institutional Reckoning 7. No Laughing Matter?: Rupturing the Solemnity of Critical Literacy Education Acknowledgments

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"It's a hell of a thing how potently the insights of Transgressive Humor in Classrooms land. The eye-opening punchlines-empowering and infuriating alike-land one after another in Dr. Low's analysis, illustrating the 'radical promise' of humor as a tool for transformation."
-Antero Garcia, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, USA

"If you've ever been the class clown, or envied one, or been afraid of one, this book is for you. David E. Low connects humor to social justice and transformation, and does so with compassion for every English teacher out there."
-Jessica Zacher Pandya, Dean of the College of Education, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA

"Through a crafty analysis of his experiences working with students in three schools in California, David E. Low invites us to open spaces for humor and comedy as possibilities for discomfort and transgression, and to make better schools. His work reminds us that when comedians are not gremlins or tricksters, they are nothing less than court jesters, happy to make oppressors smile."
-Raúl Alberto Mora, Associate Professor, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia