Projects per year
Abstract
When we think of the terms 'critical' and 'cultural sustainability', do we think of leaners' existing knowledge and practices as assets for learning, or as barriers to be undone?Every year the English specialism in the Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) that I co-lead introduces student teachers to the field of multiliteracies and critical literacies. These fields are interested in how we make meaning from a broad range of texts, across modes of representation and genre, and how these sign systems (from language, to visuals, to oracy) are deeply imbued with issues of power, access, and diversity (see Hilary Janks' Literacy & Power). Our module for initial teacher education therefore seeks to engage students with the ways in which language and other sign systems contribute to maintaining, resisting, or transforming different relations of power both in and out of the classroom.
Original language | English |
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Media of output | Online article |
Place of Publication | Scotland, UK |
Publication status | Published - 6 Nov 2020 |
Keywords
- critical literacy
- literacy
- language
- power
- anti-racism
- culturally sustainable pedagogy
Projects
- 1 Active
Research Output
- 1 Other contribution
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Can you see a social issue? (Re)Looking at everyday texts
Govender, N., 22 Oct 2019, Glasgow, ScotlandResearch output: Other contribution
Activities
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United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA) (External organisation)
Navan Govender (Advisor)
Nov 2020 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of network
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Unpacking Cultural Appropriation
Navan Govender (Recipient)
25 Nov 2020Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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Highland One World & the Anti-Racist Educator: Critical Literacy & Anti-Racist Education
Navan Govender (Recipient)
18 Nov 2020 → 25 Nov 2020Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation