Bøger af Todd Craig

In 1992, some incredible volunteers and I took a group of teens from our church on our annual trip to the Boundary Waters Wilderness Canoe area. I loved having my two younger brothers join our trips, especially to such a beautiful area like the Boundary Waters. As was the case with this trip, my 14 year old brother flew to Wisconsin and tagged along for the bus ride to Ely, Minnesota and the six-day canoe trip. Little did any of us know, God was going to use that trip to blow the mind of my brother, and all of us. This is the true story of that trip and how God met one young man in the wilderness through disappointment and the miraculous answered prayer of one big fish.

I don't know about you but my kids are fascinated with all things poop. "The Little Girl Who Pooped in Her Swimsuit" may look like a fun story about poop and a feisty little girl named, "Miranda." However, that's just wrapping. It's really a story about the proverbial light bulb that goes off in a child's brain when they realize their parents were right (a rare but highly treasured moment). It's about making mistakes, learning, and overcoming. Oh, and there's the swimming lessons thing. My little girl asked us for an entire year if she ever had to go back to the dreaded swimming lessons. If this helps anyone in a similar situation, it was all worth it.

"K for the Way" explores writing, rhetoric, and literacy from the perspective of the Hip Hop DJ. Todd Craig, a DJ himself, establishes and investigates the function of DJ rhetoric and literacy, illuminating the DJ as a fruitful example for (re)envisioning approaches to writing, research, and analysis in contemporary educational settings. Because it is widely recognized that the DJ was the catalyst for the creation of Hip Hop culture, this book begins a new conversation in which Hip Hop DJs introduce ideas about poetics and language formation through the modes, practices, and techniques they engage in on a daily basis. Using material from a larger qualitative research study that illustrates the Hip Hop DJ as a twenty-first-century new media reader, writer, and literary critic, Craig blends interviews from prominent and influential DJs in the Hip Hop community with narrative and interdisciplinary scholarship from writing studies, Hip Hop studies, African American studies, urban education, and ethnomusicology. The voices of DJs sit front and center, presenting a revolutionary conversation about writing and communication in the twenty-first century. Weaving Craig's life experiences with important discussions of racial literacies, "K for the Way" is a layered and utterly singular exploration of culture, identity, and literacy in America.