(Responding to) Youth epistemologies to create a third space: a reclamation of learning in an English language arts classroom

What is it about?

This article focuses on the construction of a third space within a high school. Third space theory emphasizes the integration of the first space of home/local community with the second space of more formalized institutions. We consider how urban youth of color engage the educational context as a basis for (re)imagining their history, culture, and themselves in order to construct counter-narratives away from framing them as failures, deficient, and depicted in “damage-centered” ways.

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