Description
Who we are, as well as where and when we are, influences the meanings we are able to make. On one hand, this reveals how our individual identities, contexts, cultures, and social positions might enable us to make sense of the world in particular ways. That is, these are our resources of meaning-making. However, this also reveals the limits of any individual perspective in the act of making meaning (whether that be reading, writing, speaking, listening, doing, being, or believing). In an attempt to move away from powerful and persistent notions that literacy and literacy education resides in the individual and what they are assumed to (not yet) know, I will use my platform here to consider how an asset-based understanding of literacies might reveal possibilities for doing literacy education that is critical and inclusive. Working from the assumption that we all already have practices for making sense of ourselves, our world, and each other through multiple sign systems, I invite you to participate with me as we look and relook, read and re-read, write and re-write, as well as design and redesign the meanings that are possible within our space - drawing together the critical, the queer, and the decolonial.Period | 2 Jul 2022 |
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Held at | United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA) |
Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Critical Literacy
- queer critical literacies
- decoloniality
- social semiotics
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Multimodality
- literacy studies
Documents & Links
- UKLA 2022 int conf - WE ARE ALL SEMIOTICIANS (keynote) by Navan Govender - print out version-navs-pc
File: application/pdf, 9.48 MB
Type: Text
- We are all semioticians - NG (keynote) - UKLA int conf 2022
File: application/octet-stream, 118 MB
Type: Text
Related content
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Research output
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Queer activism in South African education: a book review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Queer critical literacies
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Negotiating gender and sexual diversity in English language teaching: 'critical'-oriented educational materials designed by pre-service English teachers at a South African university
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Queer critical literacies and initial teacher education: transnational moments
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Critical transmodal pedagogies: student teachers play with genre conventions
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Gender Diversity and Sexuality in English Language Education: New Transnational Voices
Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Deconstructing heteronormativity and hegemonic gender orders through critical literacy and materials design: a case in a South African school of education
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The pedagogy of 'coming out': teacher identity in a critical literacy course
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Critical literacies and the conditions of decolonial possibility
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Critical literacy and critically reflective writing: navigating gender and sexual diversity
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Critical literacy: the Four Resources model & (teaching) reading
Research output: Other contribution
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Can you see a social issue? (Re)Looking at everyday texts
Research output: Other contribution
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Teacher identity: crossing the technical-rationalist and affective divide
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Literacy, language and power
Research output: Other contribution
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Teacher identity: crossing the technical-rationalist and affective divide
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Activities
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Decolonial Conversations: The Politics of Pronouns
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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English in Education (Journal)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Journal peer review
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Scottish Book Trust - Book Discovery: Decolonising the curriculum through texts (Secondary)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Multimodal Communication (Journal)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Journal peer review
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Monumental: Critical Literacies & Decolonial Praxis
Activity: Public Engagement and Other Activities › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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Exploring Critical Literacies
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Helen Adam
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
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Multimodality: Inclusion, Assessment & Social Justice Education (symposium)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Queering the Politics of Pronouns
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Projects
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Critical Literacies & the Decolonial Turn
Project: Non-funded project
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Queer Critical Literacies
Project: Non-funded project