CRITICAL LITERACY LEARNING WITH MULTIPLE DIGITAL SOURCES

Author(s):  
Byeong-Young Cho
2015 ◽  
pp. 195-213
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bishop

This chapter discusses the recent findings of the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City (DKPNYC). The DKPNYC is a cultural studies research project designed to excavate the discourses of urban youth activism and organizing in relation to critical literacy learning. In this chapter, the authors look at the work of the DKPNYC youth activists around issues related to immigrant rights and educational justice in out-of-school spaces. Amongst the interconnected issues surrounding this work, the youth participants in the DKPNYC all organize around issues related to the struggle of undocumented youth to access quality education in the United States. Data collected from the study is decidedly cross-cultural, with participants articulating visions of themselves and their future in relation to their cultural heritage and their inter-subjective ethical learning. Implications from the study provide insight to educators, researchers, and community-based organizations about educating immigrant youth and others on pressing issues around immigrant learning.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-462
Author(s):  
Anne Crampton ◽  
Cynthia Lewis

Purpose This study aims to discuss the ethical and political possibilities offered by the presence of teaching artists (TAs) and visual artwork in racially and culturally diverse high school literacy (English Language Arts) classrooms. Design/methodology/approach This study explores episodes from two separate ethnographic studies that were conducted in one teacher’s critical literacy classroom across a span of several years. This study uses a transliteracies approach (Stornaiulo et al., 2017) to think about “meaning-making at the intersection of human subjects and materials” (Kontovourki et al., 2019); the study also draws on critical scholarship on art and making (Ngo et al., 2017; Vossoughi et al., 2016). The TA, along with the materials and processes of artmaking, decentered the teacher and literacy itself, inviting in new social realities. Findings TAs’ collective interpretation of existing artwork and construction of new works made visible how both human and nonhuman bodies co-produced “new ways of feeling and being with others” (Zembylas, 2017, p. 402). This study views these artists as catalysts capable of provoking, or productively disrupting, the everyday practices of classrooms. Social implications Both studies demonstrated new ways of feeling, being and thinking about difference, bringing to the forefront momentary possibilities and impossibilities of complex human and nonhuman intra-actions. The provocations flowing from the visual artwork and the dialogue swirling around the work presented opportunities for emergent and unexpected experiences of literacy learning. Originality/value This work is valuable in exploring the boundaries of literacy learning with the serious inclusion of visual art in an English classroom. When the TAs guided both interpretation and production of artwork, they affected and were affected by the becoming happening in the classroom. This study suggests how teaching bodies, students and artwork pushed the transformative potential of everyday school settings.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremiah (Remi) Kalir

This paper/award presentation is shared on behalf of the Marginal Syllabus leadership team having received the 2020 National Technology Leadership Initiative Award, presented by the English Language Arts Teacher Educators group of the National Council of Teachers of English. Annotation is first introduced as a familiar yet often underappreciated practice in literacy education. Second, the social and critical qualities of annotation are briefly reviewed, with attention to the benefits of social annotation for students’ literacy learning and critical social annotation as a means by which literacy teacher educators can foster close reading and collaborative discussion about equity-oriented topics. Third and finally, the Marginal Syllabus is introduced and discussed. The Marginal Syllabus is a project that leverages critical social annotation for public conversation about education equity. Since 2016, the Marginal Syllabus has advocated for and productively advanced justice-directed educator learning and critical literacy education.


1988 ◽  
Vol 170 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Macdonald Fueyo

The demands placed upon Adult Basic Education programs in the United States are more rigorous and involve more people than ever before in our history. Government-supported programs as well as private ones capture in microcosm the best and worst in American education. Literacy education is modeled along a continuum moving from a technical conception of literacy, wherein students mark progress by numbers of completed worksheets, to a conception of literacy as praxis, or critical literacy, wherein students construct meaning for themselves and effect change in their lives. These competing models are contrasted, and special emphasis is given to one adult basic literacy organization that is managing to humanize the process. In this program founded in 1973, the students' own words demonstrate the liberating nature of literacy learning that puts into practice the best of current understandings in the field. The challenge of the next decades demands a critical literacy that is consistent with participatory democracy. The convergence of social learning theories, process teaching, critical consciousness, and adult literacy offers constructive responses to the epidemic incidence of illiteracy in our society.


2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Mosley Wetzel ◽  
Saba Khan Vlach ◽  
Natalie Sue Svrcek ◽  
Erica Steinitz ◽  
Lakeya Omogun ◽  
...  

Although the call for teachers to address the demographic imperative has existed for decades, recently, there has been an uptake of frameworks of multicultural education, culturally responsive pedagogies, critical literacy, and others into literacy teacher preparation. In this study, we examine connections that pre-service teachers make as a result of experiences focused on sociocultural knowledge and literacy and barriers they face in building these connections. Areas of connection include examining one’s past; recognizing students’ lives and resources in literacy teaching; considering race, racism, and students’ racial identity; drawing on multilingualism as a strength of students for literacy learning; and engaging actively and inquiring into literacy.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Ira Rengganis ◽  
Teguh Ibrahim ◽  
Mela Darmayanti ◽  
Winda Marlina Juwita

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to provide an understanding of how critical literacy-based learning practices can be implemented in elementary schools by raising the issue of exploitation of nature. The practice of critical literacy-based learning in this study uses an educational model with problems whose philosophical basis derives from the critical pedagogic of Paulo Freire. The concept of education seeks to deal with humans on problematic phenomena that disturb the balance of life to be addressed critically. The phenomenon that will be sued is "massive exploitation of shark fins by humans". The research method used is qualitative with an auto-ethnographic narrative approach which aims to chronologically describe the experiences of researchers when implementing critical literacy-based learning in elementary schools. The results showed that critical literacy learning using education with problems can be implemented through three stages, namely 1) pre-reading (problematization), 2) reading stage (critical discourse discussions), and 3) post-reading stage (social action) transformative). The implication of critical literacy based learning is the rise of critical awareness of students characterized by several indicators, namely: 1) students are able to name and decipher the core of the problem of exploitation of nature and its causal relationship with greedy and vile human nature; 2) students are able to create illustrated images that represent ideal situations that should occur; 3) students are able to write critical arguments that represent suggestions, criticisms, and hopes for fishermen to be able to maintain marine ecosystems by not exploiting sharks. This research has the significance of enriching pedagogical literacy science, especially critical literacy-based learning in elementary schools.Keywords: Critical Pedagogic, Critical Literacy, Nature Exploitation, Illustration Figure. Abstrak: Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah memberikan pemahaman tentang bagaimana praktik pembelajaran berbasis literasi kritis dapat diimplemantisakan di sekolah dasar dengan mengangkat isu eksploitasi alam. Praktik pembelajaran berbasis literasi kritis pada penelitian ini menggunakan model pendidikan hadap masalah yang dasar filosofisnya berasal dari pedagogik kritis Paulo Freire. Konsep pendidikan ini mengupayakan penghadapan manusia pada fenomena problematik yang menganggu keseimbangan kehidupan untuk disikapi secara kritis. Fenomena yang akan digugat adalah “eksploitasi sirip ikan hiu secara masif oleh manusia”. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan pendekatan naratif type auto-etnografi yang bertujuan untuk menceritakan secara kronologis pengalaman peneliti ketika mengimplementasikan pembelajaran berbasis literasi kritis di sekolah dasar. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pembelajaran literasi kritis dengan menggunakan pendidikan hadap masalah dapat diimplementasikan melalui tiga tahap yaitu 1) tahap pra-baca (problematisasi), 2) tahap membaca (diskusi-analisis wacana kritis), dan 3) tahap pasca-baca (tindakan sosial transformatif). Implikasi dari pembelajaran berbasis literasi kritis adalah bangkitnya kesadaran kritis siswa yang ditandai oleh beberapa indikator yaitu : 1) siswa mampu menamai dan mengurai inti dari problematika eksploitasi alam dan hubungan kausalitasnya dengan sifat manusia yang serakah dan keji ; 2) siswa mampu mengkreasikan gambar ilustrasi yang merepresentasikan situasi ideal yang seharusnya terjadi; 3) siswa mampu menulis karangan argumentasi kritis yang merepresentasikan saran, kritik, dan harapan pada para nelayan agar mampu menjaga ekosistem laut dengan tidak melakukan eksploitasi ikan hiu. Penelitian ini memiliki signifikansi memperkaya keilmuan pedagogik mulitiliterasi khususnya pembelajaran berbasis literasi kritis di sekolah dasar. Kata Kunci : Pedagogik Kritis, Literasi Kritis, Eksploitasi Alam, Gambar Ilustrasi.


Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bishop

This chapter discusses the recent findings of the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City (DKPNYC). The DKPNYC is a cultural studies research project designed to excavate the discourses of urban youth activism and organizing in relation to critical literacy learning. In this chapter, the authors look at the work of the DKPNYC youth activists around issues related to immigrant rights and educational justice in out-of-school spaces. Amongst the interconnected issues surrounding this work, the youth participants in the DKPNYC all organize around issues related to the struggle of undocumented youth to access quality education in the United States. Data collected from the study is decidedly cross-cultural, with participants articulating visions of themselves and their future in relation to their cultural heritage and their inter-subjective ethical learning. Implications from the study provide insight to educators, researchers, and community-based organizations about educating immigrant youth and others on pressing issues around immigrant learning.


Author(s):  
Sarita Belmont ◽  
Christine Woodcock

This qualitative action research project follows a case study format as a means of studying the effect of explicit student and teacher training in specific reading strategies designed for reading with e-texts. Teachers in the current study were trained in an instructional approach that took full advantage of e-text features, which complemented, and did not supplant, their existing literacy instructional methods. Results indicate that students exhibited an enhanced form of agency, consistently seeing new approaches in taking advantage of the e-text features, and regularly taking steps to independently enhance their literacy learning and share it with peers. Interviews with teachers and students indicated a discernable increase in access when using e-texts. There was an increased desire to use the e-texts in an engaged and sustained manner in the current study. The authors share strategic and tangible instructional approaches. Further, they address particular focus on participants' growing agency, access via critical literacy, and ways to sustain increased motivation and engagement.


Author(s):  
Nabillah Mahdiana ◽  
Sariyatun Sariyatun ◽  
Hieronymus Purwanta

<p>This research is motivated by the situation during the Covid-19 period which affects all sectors of life, including in the world of education. Teachers and students are required to be literate towards technology and literacy in learning to anticipate the spread of false information or hoaxes. The methodology used in this research is qualitative with descriptive analysis and data collection techniques in the form of a literature study. The findings of this study lead to the conclusion that the critical literacy-based historical learning model is important to apply because it is beneficial for teachers and students. The critical literacy learning model is designed with a critical pedagogical approach changing the wording hone critical thinking skills and to equip students with the skills to understand, critique texts critically, analytically, and evaluatively. While the benefits for teachers are an effort to improve the quality and effectiveness of learning by developing 21st-century competence.</p>


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