It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities by Debra Smith
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The goal of this book is to encourage educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school. The particular objective is to situate four gang members as literate, caring students from loving families whose identities and literacy keep them on the margins of school. The research described in this book suggests that advocacy is a particularly effective form of critical ethnography. Smith and Whitmore argue that until schools, as communities of practice, enable children and adolescents to...
Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities by Debra Smith is 232 pages long, and a total of 58,464 words.
This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities aloud.
Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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