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
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Dive into the research topics of 'Literacy, language and power'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Projects
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Finding a Place for Critical Literacies in Scotland
Govender, N. N. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/19 → 30/07/21
Project: Non-funded project
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Critical literacies and the conditions of decolonial possibility
Govender, N., 13 May 2023, Young People Shaping Democratic Politics: Interrogating Inclusion, Mobilising Education. Rivers, I. & Lovin, C. L. (eds.). Cham, Switzerland, p. 235-260 26 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Open AccessFile5 Citations (Scopus) -
Writing Realities
Young, R., Ferguson, F., Kaufman, D. & Govender, N., 28 Feb 2022, Brighton. 73 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
Open AccessFile -
Prizes
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Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
Govender, N. (Recipient), 15 Dec 2021
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Activities
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HFL Education Primary English Conference 2024
Govender, N. N. (Participant)
31 Jan 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Scottish Book Trust - Book Discovery: Decolonising the curriculum through texts (Secondary)
Govender, N. (Speaker)
1 Jun 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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We are all semioticians (Keynote)
Govender, N. (Speaker)
2 Jul 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk