Literacy, place-based pedagogies and social justice
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2013
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Kerkham, L.
Comber, B.
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Green, B.
Corbett, M.
Corbett, M.
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Source details - Title: Rethinking rural literacies: transnational perspectives, 2013 / Green, B., Corbett, M. (ed./s), Ch.10, pp.197-218
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Our long-term program of research has considered the relationships between teachers’ work and identities, literacy pedagogies and schooling, particularly in high-poverty communities. Over the past decade, we have worked with teachers to consciously explore with them the possible productive synergies between critical literacy and place-based pedagogies, and the affordances of multimodal and digital literacies for students’ engagement with the places where they live and learn. These studies have been undertaken with teachers working and living in various locales—from the urban fringe to inner suburban areas undergoing urban renewal, to rural and regional communities where poverty and the politics of place bring certain distinctive opportunities and constraints to bear on pedagogy for social justice. There is now wider recognition that “social justice” may need rethinking to foreground the nonhuman world and the relation between people and politics of places, people, and environments in terms of “eco-social justice” (Green 2010 ; Gruenewald 2003b) or spatial justice (Soja 2011).
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Copyright 2013 Bill Green & Michael Corbett