{"product_id":"reading-and-relevance-reimagined_9780807786253","title":"Reading and Relevance, Reimagined","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Philip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2026 Society of Professors of Education (SPE) Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThis text challenges the limited understanding of relevance and offers the rich complexity of a boys-into-young-men journey with reading and texts in focus. . . \u003cb\u003eI found the text spot on\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e—From the\u003cb\u003e Foreword by Alfred W. Tatum\u003c\/b\u003e, president, Literacy Research Association, author of Teaching Black Boys in the Elementary Grades\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book shows teachers how to use \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003erelevance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e to enhance literacy learning for Black, Latino, and South Asian men (grade 6–college).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do we mean when we say that a text is relevant to a young person or to a group of young people? And how might a reimagining of relevance, shaped through the voices of young men of color, enhance literacy teaching and learning?\u003cbr\u003eBased on case studies of six young Black, Latino, and South Asian men and their reading experiences, this book reconceptualizes the term \u003ci\u003erelevance\u003c\/i\u003e as it applies to and is applied within literacy education (middle school through college). The author reveals how four dimensions of relevance—Identity, Spatiality, Temporality, and Ideology—can guide educators in supporting the reading and meaning-making experiences of students in ways that honor the complexities of their lives and enhance their criticality. Sciurba frames relevance from a student-centered perspective as conditions that are practically, socially, and\/or conceptually applicable to one’s life.\u003cbr\u003eReaders can use \u003ci\u003eReading and Relevance, Reimagined\u003c\/i\u003e to disrupt problematic enactments of relevance in literacy spaces that are rooted in assumptions about who young people are, culturally or otherwise, as well as how they think and maneuver through their complex worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Features:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides a nuanced understanding of relevance in literacy education in order to successfully enact culturally relevant pedagogy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDraws on scholarly literature from a broad range of fields, including sociology, cultural studies, literary studies, and physical science studies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShowcases what a nondeficit approach to working with Black, Latino, South Asian, and other young people of color can look like in educational contexts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExamines data from longitudinal qualitative studies with six students and young men of color that took place across 10 years beginning in a New York City middle school.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Katie Sciurba","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43037197205606,"sku":"9780807786253","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/4051\/5174\/files\/9780807786253.jpg?v=1776444127","url":"https:\/\/www.tcpress.com\/products\/reading-and-relevance-reimagined_9780807786253","provider":"Teachers College Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}