ERIC Number: EJ1388348
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Oct
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-0042-0859
EISSN: EISSN-1552-8340
Reading Grand Theft Auto: Improvisational Urban Literacy
Urban Education, v58 n8 p1827-1852 Oct 2023
This article relies on nonrepresentational narrative research to consider improvisational urban literacy. The author uses narrative to theorize the choice to teach "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" in urban high school English classrooms. The author positions this decision as the surprising result of an improvisational, urban literacy pedagogy meant to locate and address issues of race and gender in a video game. This article calls for a broader view of textuality that affirms, supports, and celebrates emergent teacher decision making, as well as practices of urban literacy education that broaden the notion of what constitutes a text.
Descriptors: Urban Education, Literacy Education, Creative Activities, Urban Schools, High School Students, Video Games, Racism, Gender Bias, Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Media Selection
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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