A research agenda for critical literacy : challenges and possibilities in troubling times / edited by Hilary Janks (emerita professor, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa), Barbara Comber (emerita professor, Adelaide University, Australia) and Vivian Vasquez (distinguished professor, American University, USA).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Janks, Hilary, editor.

Comber, Barbara, editor.

Vasquez, Vivian, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar research agendas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--Social aspects.

Literacy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This cutting-edge Research Agenda offers a way forward for critical literacies that takes into account current conditions of possibility. Expert contributing authors showcase innovative research that emphasises the importance of language, multimodality, place and suppressed knowledges. A Research Agenda for Critical Literacy outlines contemporary challenges faced by the field including a changing world order, the rise of right-wing extremism, climate change, and the changing role of social media and AI. Chapters highlight critical literacy's dynamic and malleable nature, re-imagining influential frameworks and exploring new possibilities for practice. Considering also shifts in applied linguistics and the imperatives of the decolonial project, authors assess the implications of posthumanism, new materialism and the ontological turn for re-thinking language, discourse and critical literacies and advocate for re-imagining practice in order to meet modern society's needs. Interspersed with analytical commentary, A Research Agenda for Critical Literacy is a vital resource for students and scholars in education, particularly those interested in language, literacies, content literacies and discourse in relation to issues of identity, power and social and ecological justice. It is also an enlightening read for educators and researchers seeking to understand the ontological turn, posthumanism, new materialisms and decolonial theory in relation to pedagogy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Part I: Challenges

Introduction to Part I:

1. Challenges to critical literacies in troubled times / Hilary Janks, Barbara Comber and Vivian Vasquez

2. Posthuman critical literacies / Alastair Pennycook

3. Reconfiguring critical literacy through feminist posthumanism and new materialism / Vivienne Bozalek

Part II: Frameworks for critical literacy revisited

Introduction to Part II:

4. The 3D literacy framework: A 21st-century commentary / Bill Green

5. The multiliteracies framework / Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope

6. A posthuman re-turn to Janks' interdependent model of critical literacy / Hilary Janks

7. Revisiting an instructional model of critical literacy / Amy Seely Flint, Jerome Harste and Mitzi Lewison

8. Pathways to the gender identity complexities framework: Expansions and perspectives in affect and ontology / SJ Miller

9. Reinventing critical literacies for unforeseen futures: A (networked) commentary on praxis, ecology, and the intrapersonal / Raúl Alberto Mora, Jennifer Helen Alford and Jessica Zacher Pandya

Part III: Possibilities towards a new agenda for critical literacy

Introduction to Part III:

10. Unsettling critical literacy: Indigenous climate fiction and relational reading practices / Sandra R. Phillips, Larissa McLean Davies, Clare Archer- Lean, Sarah E. Truman and Melitta Hogarth

11. Translanguaging as critical literacy: Surfacing bilingual children's translation and metalinguistic competences for biliteracy development / Xolisa Guzula

12. Critical literacy in a second language: A case in a difficult Argentinian primary school context / Melina Porto

13. Working with place-conscious pedagogies: Decolonial and posthuman possibilities / Amparo Clavijo-Olarte and Rosa Alejandra Medina Riveros

14. Authoring the city: Community walks as collectively embodied critical literacies / Gerald Campano, María Paula Ghiso, Patricia Rosas Chávez and Kelsey Trudo

15. Reading monuments and their de/colonial affects: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of glasgow's doulton fountain / Navan Govender

16. Annotation in public spaces as a form of writing back to power / Remi Kalir

17. Transgressive student humour as critical literacy in action / David E. Low

18. Re-reading the school bus as educational technology / Jorge Eduardo Garcia, Stephanie Robillard and Antero Garcia

19. "why can't a robot be more like a wo/man?" critical posthuman literacies, generative AI and writing / Lucinda McKnight

20. Trans studies and critical literacy research / James Joshua Coleman

21. Sounding out a new (sonic) dimension: Examining two recent riffs on critical literacies / Jon M. Wargo and Cassie J. Brownell

22. El semillero de literacidades insumisas: Decolonial playgrounds for critical literacies paths in Puerto Rico / Carmen Liliana Medina, María del Rocío Costa and Priscila Pérez Mercadois

23. Making art critically / Vivian Vasquez

24. Re-thinking critical literacy as a relational-ontological project / Tracey Pyscher.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035341504 (e-book)

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