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- catalog abstract "Based on an ethnographic study in an urban classroom of 7- to 9-year olds, Writing Superheroes: Contemporary Childhood, Popular Culture, and Classroom Literacy examines how young school children use popular culture, especially superhero stories, in the unofficial peer social world and in the official school literary curriculum. In one sense, the book is about children "writing superheroes"--About children appropriating superhero stories in their fiction writing and dramatic play on the playground and in the classroom. These stories offer children identities as powerful people who do battle against evil and win, but they also reveal limiting ideological assumptions about relations between people - boys and girls, adults and children, people of varied heritages, physical demeanors, and social classes. The book, then, is also about children as "writing superheroes." With the assistance of their teacher, the observed children became superheroes of another sort, able to take on powerful cultural storylines. In this book, Anne Dyson examines how the children's interest in and conflicts about commercial culture give rise to both literacy and social learning, including learning how to participate in a community of differences.".
- catalog contributor b10267076.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Based on an ethnographic study in an urban classroom of 7- to 9-year olds, Writing Superheroes: Contemporary Childhood, Popular Culture, and Classroom Literacy examines how young school children use popular culture, especially superhero stories, in the unofficial peer social world and in the official school literary curriculum.".
- catalog description "In one sense, the book is about children "writing superheroes"--About children appropriating superhero stories in their fiction writing and dramatic play on the playground and in the classroom. These stories offer children identities as powerful people who do battle against evil and win, but they also reveal limiting ideological assumptions about relations between people - boys and girls, adults and children, people of varied heritages, physical demeanors, and social classes. The book, then, is also about children as "writing superheroes."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: On the Trail of the Superheroes -- Ch. 1. Studying Children's Social and Textual Lives: Appropriated and Disputed Heroes -- Ch. 2. Orientation: The Children, the Teacher, and the Shifting Social Ground -- Ch. 3. The Ninjas, the Ladies, and the X-Men: Text as Ticket to Play -- Ch. 4. The Blobs and the X-People: New Perspectives on Old Representations -- Ch. 5. The "Trials and Tribulations" of Emily and Other Media Misses: Text as Dialogic Medium -- Ch. 6. The Coming of Venus Tina: Texts as Markers and Mediators of Tough-Talking Kids -- Ch. 7. Transformed and Silenced Lovers: Texts as Sites of Revelation and Circumvention -- Ch. 8. The Negotiating Teachers: On Freeing the Children to Write -- Coda: On Writing "Good Guys."".
- catalog description "With the assistance of their teacher, the observed children became superheroes of another sort, able to take on powerful cultural storylines. In this book, Anne Dyson examines how the children's interest in and conflicts about commercial culture give rise to both literacy and social learning, including learning how to participate in a community of differences.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 250 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0807736392 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807736406 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Language and literacy series".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Teachers College Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "372.62/3 21".
- catalog subject "Child development United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "English language Composition and exercises Study and teaching (Primary) Social aspects United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "LB1529.U6 D87 1997".
- catalog subject "Multicultural education United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Popular culture United States Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: On the Trail of the Superheroes -- Ch. 1. Studying Children's Social and Textual Lives: Appropriated and Disputed Heroes -- Ch. 2. Orientation: The Children, the Teacher, and the Shifting Social Ground -- Ch. 3. The Ninjas, the Ladies, and the X-Men: Text as Ticket to Play -- Ch. 4. The Blobs and the X-People: New Perspectives on Old Representations -- Ch. 5. The "Trials and Tribulations" of Emily and Other Media Misses: Text as Dialogic Medium -- Ch. 6. The Coming of Venus Tina: Texts as Markers and Mediators of Tough-Talking Kids -- Ch. 7. Transformed and Silenced Lovers: Texts as Sites of Revelation and Circumvention -- Ch. 8. The Negotiating Teachers: On Freeing the Children to Write -- Coda: On Writing "Good Guys."".
- catalog title "Writing superheroes : contemporary childhood, popular culture, and classroom literacy / Anne Haas Dyson.".
- catalog type "text".