Transgressive Humor in Classrooms

ISBN-13: 9781032371412 / Twarda / 2024 / 200 str.

David E. Low

Opis

David 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.

Recenzje

“It’s a hell of a thing how potently the insights of Transgressive Humor as Meaning-Making Practice land. The eye-opening punchlines—empowering and infuriating alike—land one after another in Dr. Low’s analysis, illustrating the “radical promise” of humor as a tool for transformation.”
-Antero Garcia, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, USA

“If you’ve ever been the class clown, or envied one, or been afraid of one, this book is for you. David Low connects humor to social justice and transformation, and does so with compassion for every English teacher out there.”
-Jessica Zacher Pandya, Dean of the College of Education, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA

“Through a crafty analysis of his experiences working with students in three schools in California, David Low invites us to open spaces for humor and comedy as possibilities for discomfort and transgression, and to make better schools. His work reminds us that when comedians are not gremlins or tricksters, they are nothing less than court jesters, happy to make oppressors smile.”
-Raúl Alberto Mora, Associate Professor and Doctorate in Education Chair, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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