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Developing a Sociocritical Literacy in the Third Space

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Developing a Sociocritical Literacy in the Third Space
Abstract/Description
This essay argues for a paradigm shift in what counts as learning and literacy education for youth. Two related constructs are emphasized: collective Third Space and sociocritical literacy. The construct of a collective Third Space builds on an existing body of research and can be viewed as a particular kind of zone of proximal development. The perspective taken here challenges some current definitions of the zone of proximal development. A sociocritical literacy historicizes everyday and institutional literacy practices and texts and reframes them as powerful tools oriented toward critical social thought. The theoretical constructs described in this article derive from an empirical case study of the Migrant Student Leadership Institute (MSLI) at the University of California, Los Angeles. Within the learning ecology of the MSLI, a collective Third Space is interactionally constituted, in which traditional conceptions of academic literacy and instruction for students from nondominant communities are contested and replaced with forms of literacy that privilege and are contingent upon students' sociohistorical lives, both proximally and distally. Within the MSLI, hybrid language practices; the conscious use of social theory, play, and imagination; and historicizing literacy practices link the past, the present, and an imagined future.
Author/creator
Gutiérrez, Kris D.
Date
2008
In publication
Reading Research Quarterly
Volume
43
Issue
2
Pages
148-164
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Empirical
IRE Approach/Concept
Social Design Experiment/Social Design-Based Experiment (SDBE)
Historicity
Equity
Featured case/project
Migrant Student Leadership Institute (MSLI)
Primary national context
United States
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
1936-2722
DOI
10.1598/RRQ.43.2.3
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (Wiley Online Library)
Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
Other related resources/entities
Third Space with Dr. Kris Gutiérrez
Citation
Gutiérrez, K. D. (2008). Developing a Sociocritical Literacy in the Third Space. Reading Research Quarterly, 43(2), 148–164. https://doi.org/10.1598/RRQ.43.2.3
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Solidarity-Driven Codesign: Evolving Methodologies for Expanding Engagement with Familial & Community Expertise
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Handbook Chapter 16 Citations

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