Literacy Education in the Post-Truth Era

The Pedagogical Potential of Multiliteracies

Bibliographic Data

ID21729992
AuthorsLana Parker (0000-0002-7032-3652, University of Windsor), Kristy Smith (0000-0003-3920-3502, York University)
Year2022
Volume24
Issue2
Pages198-215
Publication date2022-08-19
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1038-1562 • E-ISSN: 1839-4728
PublisherUniversity of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.20360/langandlit29577
OpenAlexW4292348738
LanguageEN
References cited12

Current literacy curriculum often reflects an emphasis on traditions of print literacy. This focus is a concern in the post-truth era, as youth engage in diverse meaning-making practices that shape their habits as consumers and producers of information. This in-depth case study investigated the in-class and at-home online behaviors of high school students. We find that even when explicit learning about ‘research’ occurred in class, students are lacking sense-making strategies in their personal online engagements. We also find that curriculum relies on tradition with very little recognition of (multi)literacies as socially constructed and that teachers desire more professional development and guidance about how to engage these literacies more holistically

Curriculum · Information literacy · Literacy · Mathematics education · Media literacy · Pedagogy · Sociology · Computer Science · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Social Media and Politics

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