Transgressive Humor in Classrooms

Punching Up, Punching Down, and Critical Literacy Practices
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-36901-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 268 g

In this innovative book, David E. 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.

Critical literacy centers discussions on power and social roles but often overlooks how students use transgressive humor as a means to interrogate power. Through examples of classroom interactions and anecdotes, Low analyzes the role of humor in classroom settings to uncover how humor interplays with critical inquiry, sensemaking, and nonsense-making. Articulated across the fields of literacy studies and humor studies, the book uses ethnographic data from three Central California high schools to establish linkages and dissonances between critical literacy education and adolescents’ joking practices. Adopting the dialectic of punching up and punching down as a conceptual framework, the book argues that developing more nuanced understandings of transgressive humor presents educators with opportunities to cultivate deeper critical literacy pedagogies and that doing so is a matter of social justice.

Essential for scholars and students in literacy education, this book adds to the scholarship on critical literacy by exploring the subversive power of humor in the classroom.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Low, David E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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