Critical Perspectives on Global Literacies

Shea N. Kerkhoff is Assistant Professor of Literacy and Secondary Education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, United States. Hiller A. Spires is Executive Director and Professor Emerita at North Carolina State University, United States.

Introduction: Towards an Overarching Definition of Global Literacies. Section I. Literacies as a Human Right in all Nations Around the World. 1. Geopolitics of Knowledge in Multiliteracies Research. 2. Literacies Made in Brazil: Global and Subaltern Cosmopolitan Literacies. 3. Who Decides What Is Legitimate Literacy? Affirming the Importance of African Languages in the Global Literacies Field. 4. The Digital Literacy Divide Across the Rural Lifeworld: From Remote Possibility to Global Connectivity. Section II. Critical Reading and Creation of Multimodal Texts About Global Issues. 5. Doing Justice to the Other: Developing Cosmopolitan Dispositions Through Critical-Ethical Pedagogies in Global Literacies Education. 6. Somali-Canadian, Muslim, Female YouTubers & Teachers Make Videos as a Global Literacies Practice. 7. Storying Climate Change: Discursive Possibilities for Teaching Climate Justice Literacies. Section III. Intercultural Communication and Reciprocal Collaboration with Globally Diverse Others. 8. Critical Narratives on Intercultural Communication in Global Literacies Education. 9. Reaching Beyond Personal Borders to Narrate Cross-Cultural Connections. 10. Our Linguistic Landscape: Preparing Teachers and Students to See, Hear, and Affirm Our Communities. 11. Measuring the Teaching of Global Literacies. Section IV. Transformative Action for Social and Environmental Justice that Traverses Borders. 12. Rhetoric, Racial Positioning, and Resistance: Asian Americans and the Need for Critical Global Literacies Across Diaspora. 13. Fostering Climate Crisis Global Literacies in the Classroom. 14. Community-based, Literacy Makerspaces: Opportunities for Critical Global Literacies. 15. Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global: Border-Crossing Discourse Within a Collaboration of Students from China and the United States. Index