Transgressive Humor in Classrooms
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Transgressive Humor in Classrooms

Punching Up, Punching Down, and Critical Literacy Practices

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Transgressive Humor in Classrooms

Punching Up, Punching Down, and Critical Literacy Practices

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032371412
eBook ISBN
9781040008775
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Education General
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Foreword
  9. Prologue: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One
  10. 1. The Gremlin’s Work in the World
  11. 2. Humor as a Tool for Sensemaking and Nonsense-Making: The Doubly Obligatory Chapter
  12. 3. Punching Up and Punching Down: A Sorta Conceptual Framework
  13. 4. “A Most Strange Revision”: Gremlins, Transgressive Humor, and Critique in/of School
  14. 5. Fight the Power! (This Message Brought to You by the Power): Teachers, Transgressive Humor, and Framings of Critical Literacy
  15. 6. Dehumanizing Humor as a Catalyst for Institutional Reckoning
  16. 7. No Laughing Matter?: Rupturing the Solemnity of Critical Literacy Education
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Index