Critical Perspectives on Global Literacies

by Shea N. Kerkhoff

Author	: Shea N. Kerkhoff
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages	: 262
Release	: 2023-05-05
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1000883019

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This book offers critical perspectives on global literacies, connecting research, theory, and practice. An emerging concept in the literacy field, many scholars agree on the need for students to develop global literacies, yet few agree on a widely accepted definition. Based on a synthesis of the literature, the editors formulate a definition of global literacies with four dimensions, including: literacy as a human right in all nations around the world; critical reading and creation of multimodal texts about global issues; intercultural communication and reciprocal collaboration with globally diverse others; and transformative action for social and environmental justice that traverses borders. Taking this shared, proposed definition as a starting point, the chapters then offer contextualized examples of global literacies from K-12 and teacher education classrooms to make explicit links between research and practice. The contributors interact with and interrogate the book’s definition of global literacies using a common framework of critical theory. As such, this book provides both emerging and established scholars with critical frameworks for positioning global literacies in ways that are relevant, dynamic, and forward thinking.

Urban Literacies

by Valerie Kinloch

Author	: Valerie Kinloch
Publisher	: Teachers College Press
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2011-03-28
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 9780807751824

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Urban Literacies showcases cutting-edge perspectives on urban education and language and literacy by respected junior and senior scholars, researchers, and teacher educators. The authors explore—through various theoretical orientations and diverse methodologies—meanings of urban education in the lives of students and their families across three intersecting areas of research: 1) family and community literacies, 2) teaching and teacher education, and 3) popular culture, digital media, and forms of multimodality. This important volume: Extends the focus on “literacy” to include multiple settings and forms, as well as multiple voices and perspectives. Serves as a model of critical research and an extension of mentoring relationships and collaborative engagements. Includes a “Critical Perspective” section at the end of each chapter in which authors discuss implications, practices, strategies, and recommendations for improving literacy instruction.

Critical Literacies

by Bogum Yoon

Author	: Bogum Yoon
Publisher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 189
Release	: 2015-12-10
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 9812879439

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This book offers comprehensive coverage of critical literacies by pursuing a balanced approach to theory, research, and practice. By clarifying the gaps among the frameworks of critical literacies, the author discusses new ways of approaching them from global and multicultural perspectives and provides an instructional model of critical global literacies that draws on her own experience and an extensive literature review. This insightful book also documents teachers’ case studies, focusing on their voices and instructional approaches in diverse classrooms. The author critically analyses the case studies and offers important suggestions for future research and practice.

Literacies, Global and Local

by Mastin Prinsloo

Author	: Mastin Prinsloo
Publisher	: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages	: 232
Release	: 2008
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 9789027205186

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The articles collected in this volume draw on or relate to a body of work that has become known as the 'New Literacy Studies' (NLS), which studies literacy as situated semiotic practices that vary across sites in specific ways that are socially shaped. The collection offers a body of empirically and theoretically based papers on literacy ethnography as well as providing engagements with critical issues around literacy and education. The articles offer complementary perspectives on research and theory in literacy studies and include research perspectives from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, as well as North and South America. The researchers are all concerned to take the work of the New Literacy Studies further by expanding on its conceptual resources and research sites.

Global Conversations in Literacy Research

by Peggy Albers

Author	: Peggy Albers
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 314
Release	: 2017-11-22
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1351724959

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In this volume, renowned literacy and language education scholars who have shaped policy and practice aimed toward social justice and equity address current intellectual and practical issues in the teaching of literacy in classrooms and educational environments across diverse and international settings. Drawn from talks that were presented live and hosted by Global Conversations in Literacy Research (GCLR), an online open-access critical literacy project, this book provides access, in edited written form, to these scholars’ critically and historically situated talks. Bringing together talks on diverse topics—including digital and media literacy, video games, critical literacy, and ESOL—Albers preserves the scholars’ critical discourses to engage readers in the conversation. Offering a broad and expansive understanding of what literacy has to offer for scholars, teachers, and students, this book demonstrates the importance of positioning literacy as a social practice and brings critical literacy to a global audience.

Working with Academic Literacies

by Theresa Lillis

Author	: Theresa Lillis
Publisher	: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages	: 442
Release	: 2015-11-04
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 1602357633

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The editors and contributors to this collection explore what it means to adopt an “academic literacies” approach in policy and pedagogy. Transformative practice is illustrated through case studies and critical commentaries from teacher-researchers working in a range of higher education contexts—from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, across disciplines, and spanning geopolitical regions including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cataluña, Finland, France, Ireland, Portugal, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Global Citizenship for Adult Education

by Petra A. Robinson

Author	: Petra A. Robinson
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 333
Release	: 2021-07-19
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1000403408

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This book promotes the development of nontraditional literacies in adult education, especially as these critical literacies relate to global citizenship, equity, and social justice. As this edited collection argues, a rapidly changing global environment and proliferation of new media technologies have greatly expanded the kinds of literacies that one requires in order to be an engaged global citizen. It is imperative for adult educators and learners to understand systems, organizations, and relationships that influence our lives as citizens of the world. By compiling a comprehensive list of foundational, sociocultural, technological and informational, psychosocial and environmental, and social justice literacies, this volume offers readers theoretical foundations, practical strategies, and additional resources.

Critical Perspectives on Language Education

by Katie Dunworth

Author	: Katie Dunworth
Publisher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 237
Release	: 2014-07-24
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 3319061852

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The studies in this volume investigate how multilingual education involves a critical engagement with questions of identity and culture, and a movement towards new ways of being and belonging. It addresses previously under-explored issues, in particular the integration of theories like ‘thirdness’, and practices of language education and maintenance with relevance to the Asia-Pacific region. The analyses reveal the delicate balance of interests of all stakeholders and offer detailed insights into the reality of multilingual education, with specific examples of Chinese, English, Japanese and Tamil. In a globalised world, effective language education has become increasingly important, and the studies presented here have the potential to inform and advance evidence-based multilingual education through adding important dimensions of theoretical exploration and refreshing empirical resources.

The New Literacies

by Elizabeth A. Baker

Author	: Elizabeth A. Baker
Publisher	: Guilford Press
Total Pages	: 337
Release	: 2010-04-13
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 1606236067

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With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learning—and the changing nature of literacy itself—in today's K–12 classrooms. The focus is on varied technologies and literacies such as social networking sites, text messaging, and online communities. Cutting-edge approaches to integrating technology into traditional, print-centered reading and writing instruction are described. Also discussed are ways to teach the new skills and strategies that students need to engage effectively with digital texts. The book is unique in examining new literacies through multiple theoretical lenses, including behavioral, semiotic, cognitive, sociocultural, critical, and feminist perspectives.