Global Conversations in Literacy Research Digital and Critical Literacies

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.

1. Critical Literacy, School Improvement, and the Four Resources Model 2. What Do We Mean By Literacy Now: Critical Curricular Implications 3. Doing Critical Literacy 4. Towards an Ecologically-Valid, Scientifically Rigorous, Theory of Learning-To-Read 5. Exploring Literacy and Identity at Multiple Timescales 6. Ethically Based Literacy Assessment Within a New Literacy Framework 7. How Affordances of Digital Tool Use Foster Critical Literacy 8. New Mobile Literacies 9. Constructing the Child at Play: From the Schooled Child to Technotoddlers and Back Again 10. Young Children’s Online Practices: Past, Present and Future 11. Books and Games 12. Living in a Digital World: Literacy, Learning, and Videogames 13. (Im)Material Girls Living in (im)material Worlds: Identity Curation Through Time and Space 14. Identity, Investment, and Multilingual Literacy (in a Digital World) 15. A Critical Untangling of Adolescents’ Literacy Practices and Popular Culture

Peggy Albers is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at Georgia State University, USA. She isfounder and director of the Global Conversations in Literacy Research series of literacy talks.