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A Nation at Promise: Challenging Deficit Constructions of Male Youth Labeled "At-Risk"

Sun, April 10, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level Four, Liberty Salon K

Session Type: Symposium

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By challenging deficit constructions of male youth labeled “at-risk,” this panel puts forth alternative narratives on masculinity and schooling. This panel showcases the myriad ways “at-risk” young men, too often deemed uneducable, leverage language and literacy to live and learn. In so doing, the papers will describe how such young men, while doing their literacies, work to (re)situate themselves in the social and cultural spaces they value and inhabit (Dyson, 2003; Kirkland, 2013). By reframing narratives of male identity, this panel speaks to educational policies and practices that reproduce inequities through deficit discourses. Further, it offers directions for public pedagogies, research, generative community-school relationships, and classroom-based practice that are more responsive to learning practices, complex social narratives, and unfolding lives.

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