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books | monographs | reports

Jocson, K.M. (Ed.). (in press). Cultural transformations: Youth and pedagogies of possibility.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Jocson, K.M.  (2008). Youth poets: Empowering literacies in and out of schools.  New York: Peter Lang. available >>

Jocson, K.M.  (2005).  Promoting literacy and critical writing skills through poetry. University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (UC ACCORD). available >>

journal articles | essays [refereed]

Jocson, K.M., & Thorne-Wallington, E. (in press).  Mapping literacy rich environments: Geospatial perspectives on literacy and education. Teachers College Record.

Jocson, K.M.  (2013). Remix revisited: Critical solidarity in youth media arts. E-Learning and Digital Media, 10(1), 68-82. available >>

Jocson, K.M.  (2012).  Youth media as narrative assemblage: Examining new literacies at an urban high school. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 7(4), 298-316. (pdf)

Jocson, K.M.  (2010). Unpacking symbolic creativities: Writing in school and across contexts. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 32(2), 206-236. (pdf)

Jocson, K.M.  (2009).  Steering legacies: Pedagogy, literacy and social justice in schools. The Urban Review, 41(3), 269-285. (pdf)

Jocson, K.M.  (2009).  Whose story is it anyway?: Teaching social studies and making use of kuwento.  Multicultural Perspectives, 11(1), 31-36.

Jocson, K.M.  (2008). Kuwento as multicultural pedagogy in high school Ethnic Studies.  Pedagogies: An International Journal, 3(4), 241-253. (pdf)

Jocson, K.M., Burnside, S., & Collins, M.  (2006).  Pens on the prize: Linking school and community through contest-inspired literacy.  Multicultural Education, 14(2), 28-33.

Jocson, K.M. (2006).  Examining hybrid literacies of critical youth poets.  International Journal of Learning, 12(8), 49-56.

Jocson, K.M.  (2006).  “Bob Dylan and Hip Hop”: Intersecting literacy practices in youth poetry communities.  Written Communication, 23(3), 231-259.

Jocson, K.M.  (2006).  “There’s a better word”: Urban youth re-writing their social worlds through poetry.  Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 49(8), 700-707.

Jocson, K.M.  (2005). “Taking it to the mic”: Pedagogy of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People and partnership with an urban high school.  English Education, 37(2), 44-60.

Jocson, K.M.  (2004).  Beyond borders: Poetry slicing through steel gates and barbed wires. English Journal, 93(3), 15-16.

journal articles | essays [non-refereed]

Jocson, K.M.  (Ed.). (2012). Introduction to focus issue: Youth and pedagogies of possibility.  Pedagogies: An International Journal, 7(4), 295-297.

Jocson, K.M. (2011). Poetry in a new race era. Daedalus: Journal of the Academy of Arts & Sciences, 140(1), 154-162. (pdf)

Jocson, K.M., and Conteh, J. (Eds.). (2008). Recognizing diversity and difference: Challenges for English/literacy. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 7(2), 1-3.

Alsup, J., Myers, J., Jocson, K., Kynard, C., Farrell, E., McGrail, E., Cercone, J., and Kinloch, V.  (2007).  English education and globalization: Teaching responsibly in the 21st century. Available: http://ceeglobalization.wikispaces.com

Jocson, K.M. (2007). Responsible art. Urban Mozaik Magazine.

Boyd, F., Ariail, M., Williams, R., Jocson, K.,Tinker-Sachs, G., and McNeal, K., with Fecho, B., Fisher, M., Healy, M., Meyer, and Morrell, E.  (2006). Real teaching for real diversity: Preparing English language arts teachers for 21st century classrooms.  English Education, 38(4), 329-350.

Jocson, K.M.  (2005).  Teacher as learner: Toward a praxis of engaging literacies in alternative spaces for learning.  Current Issues in Education [Online], 8(5).

Jocson, K.M.  (2004).  Urban youth as agents in creating community through poetry.  California English, 10(1), 20-23.

book chapters

Jocson, K.M., with Jacobs-Fantauzzi, E. (in press). “Barely Audible”: A remix of poetry and video as pedagogical practice. In. K.M. Jocson (Ed.), Cultural transformations: Youth and pedagogies of possibility.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Jocson, K.M. (2013). Critical media ethnography: Researching youth media.  In D. Paris & M. Winn (Eds.), Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities (pp. 105-123). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jocson, K.M. (2013). Kuwento and karaoke: Sociocultural perspectives on literacy and possibilities in education. In D. Maramba & R. Bonus (Eds.), “The Other Students”: Filipino Americans, Education and Power (pp. 183-196). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Jocson, K.M. (2012). We are the ones: Educative possibilities in youth poetry.  In E. Dixon-Román & E.W. Gordon (Eds.), Thinking comprehensively about education: Spaces of educative possibility and their implications for public policy (pp. 197-210). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

Jocson, K.M. & Cook, B. (2012). Pedagogy, collaboration, and transformation: A conversation with Brett Cook. In L. Hochtritt, T. Quinn, & J. Ploof (Eds.), Art and social justice education: Culture as commons (pp. 89-94). New York: Routledge.

Jocson, K.M., & Share, J. (2011). From new media to critical media literacies: Politics, practice and pedagogy. In C. Day (Ed.), International handbook of teacher and school development (pp. 351-359).New York: Routledge.

Jocson, K.M. & Cooks, J. (2011). Writing as a site of struggle: Popular culture, empowerment, and politics of (in)visibility. In V. Kinloch (Ed.), Urban Literacies: Critical Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Community (pp. 145-159). New York: Teachers College Press.

Jocson, K.M. (2010). Youth writing across media: A note about the what and the how. In s. Miller & D. Kirkland (Eds.), Change matters: Qualitative research perspectives for moving social justice theory to policy (pp. 77-87). New York: Peter Lang.

Jocson, K.M., & Rivera, T. (2010). Toward a theory of poemness: Cultural politics and transformative pedagogies. In Z. Leonardo (Ed.), Handbook of cultural politics and education  (pp. 527-540). Boston, MA: SensePublishers.

Jocson, K.M. (2010). Writing, pedagogy, and social justice. In T. Chapman and N. Hobbel (Eds.), Social justice pedagogy across the curriculum:  The practice of freedom (pp. 249-261).  New York: Routledge.

Jocson, K.M.  (2008).  Situating the personal in digital media production.  In L. Vasudevan & M. Hill (Eds.), Media, learning, and sites of possibility (pp. 167-193).  New York: Peter Lang.

Jocson, K.M.  (2007). Urban youth engaging poetry and creating learning communities.  In J. Kincheloe & K. Hayes (Eds.), Teaching city kids: Understanding and appreciating them (pp. 157-166).  New York: Peter Lang.

Jocson, K.M.  (2006).  “The best of both worlds”: Youth poetry as social critique and form of empowerment.  In S. Ginwright, J. Cammarota, & P. Noguera (Eds.), Beyond resistance! Youth activism and community change: New democratic possibilities for practice and policy for America’s youth (pp. 129-147). New York: Routledge.