What Could Professional Wrestling and School Literacy Practices Possibly Have in Common

Abstract

At fiPSt glance, any connection between professional wrestling and school-based literacy practices might seem far-fetched, or incongruous at best. This seeming incongruity, however, is what intrigues us most. It is also what drives us to wonder if governmental and media sources that regularly proclaim a crisis in literacy achievements might be overlooking some potentially rich intersections between young people's personal and school literacies. Finally, we can't help but wonder, along with columnist Patrick Clinton (2002), if the real crisis isn't the disaffection of too many school-age youth the ones Clinton described this way:

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