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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.
Contents
Contents
PART I CHALLENGES
Introduction to Part I
1 Challenges to critical literacies in troubled times 5
Hilary Janks, Barbara Comber and Vivian Vasquez
2 Posthuman critical literacies 19
Alastair Pennycook
3 Reconfiguring critical literacy through feminist
posthumanism and new materialism 31
Vivienne Bozalek
PART II FRAMEWORKS FOR CRITICAL LITERACY REVISITED
Introduction to Part II
4 The 3D Literacy Framework: a 21st-century commentary 49
Bill Green
5 The multiliteracies framework 55
Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope
6 A posthuman re-turn to Janks' interdependent model of
critical literacy 65
Hilary Janks
7 Revisiting an instructional model of critical literacy 75
Amy Seely Flint, Jerome Harste and Mitzi Lewison
8 Pathways to the gender identity complexities framework:
expansions and perspectives in affect and ontology 81
sj Miller
9 Reinventing critical literacies for unforeseen futures: a
(networked) commentary on praxis, ecology, and the
intrapersonal 91
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 109
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 121
Xolisa Guzula
12 Critical literacy in a second language: a case in a difficult
Argentinian primary school context 135
Melina Porto
13 Working with place-conscious pedagogies: decolonial and
posthuman possibilities 147
Amparo Clavijo-Olarte and Rosa Alejandra Medina Riveros
14 Authoring the city: community walks as collectively
embodied critical literacies 161
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 173
Navan Govender
16 Annotation in public spaces as a form of writing back to
power 187
Remi Kalir
17 Transgressive student humour as critical literacy in action 197
David E. Low
18 Re-reading the school bus as educational technology 207
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 217
Lucinda McKnight
20 Trans studies and critical literacy research 229
James Joshua Coleman
21 Sounding out a new (sonic) dimension: examining two
recent riffs on critical literacies 239
Jon M. Wargo and Cassie J. Brownell
22 El Semillero de Literacidades Insumisas: decolonial
playgrounds for critical literacies paths in Puerto Rico 253
Carmen Liliana Medina, María del Rocío Costa and Priscila
Pérez Mercadois
23 Making art critically 267
Vivian Vasquez
24 Re-thinking critical literacy as a relational-ontological
project 277
Tracey Pyscher
