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Literacies Made in Brazil: Global and Subaltern Cosmopolitan Literacies
Literacies Made in Brazil: Global and Subaltern Cosmopolitan Literacies
Literacies
List of Figures x
List of Tables xi
List of Contributors xii
Foreword xvi
BOGUM YOON
Acknowledgements xviii
SECTION I
Literacies as a Human Right in all Nations Around
the World 9
SECTION III
Intercultural Communication and Reciprocal
Collaboration with Globally Diverse Others 141
Index 280
Figures
Lori Czop Assaf is Full Professor at Texas State University in the United
States. Her research is published in Journal of Literacy Research, Lan-
guage Arts, and Language, Culture and Curriculum. She is a Fulbright
Scholar and an Honorary Professor of International Studies. Her
research includes teacher education, writing instruction, and identity.
Richard Beach is Professor Emeritus of Literacy Education at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota. He is author or co-author/co-editor of 32 books.
He is a former President of the National Conference on Research in
Language and a former President of the Literacy Research Association.
Suzanne S. Choo is Associate Professor in the English Language and Lit-
erature Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore. Her research has been published
in Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English,
Harvard Educational Review, among others. Her website is https://
suzannechoo.com.
Kristina Copelas is an English as a Second Language Teacher at Peabody
Public Schools in Peabody, Massachusetts, United States.
Mary E. Curran is Professor of Practice in Language Education and Direc-
tor of Local-Global Partnerships at Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey. Her scholarship focuses on community-engaged language
teacher education. She directs The Conversation Tree: Community-
Engaged Language Learning Partnerships and the Community-Engaged
Education in Yucatán Programs.
Tami Ensor is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education
at Westminster College in the United States. She teaches education
courses primarily focused on pedagogy that supports students to be
relevant in a 21st century classroom. Tami has over 30 years of class-
room experience having taught in multiple grade levels in addition to
serving as an administrator. Her goal is to bring out the best in pre-
service teachers by helping them discover unique and creative ways to
meet the demands of the constantly evolving world of education.
Contributors xiii
Daniel Ferraz is a faculty member in the Department of Modern Lan-
guages at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He centers his teaching
and research on teacher education, language education, literacies, and
cultural studies. He is the coordinator of the Grupo de Estudos sobre
Educação Linguística em Línguas Estrangeiras (GEELLE).
Andrea Gambino is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Los
Angeles, United States. Her research focuses on teachers’ practices of
critical media literacy as a tool to increase students’ agency and civic
actions for social and environmental justice.
Laura Boynton Hauerwas is an Elementary/Special Education professor
at Providence College in Rhode Island, United States. Her scholar-
ship and teaching focuses on language and literacy, particularly for
multilingual students and those with disabilities. Additionally, she is
involved in the development of international experiences (abroad and
virtual) for teachers.
Marie Himes is Director of the New Literacies Collaborative at North
Carolina State University’s Friday Institute for Educational Innova-
tion, United States. Himes’ research focuses on new literacies and
inquiry-based and global learning. She has been co-designing Project-
Based Inquiry (PBI) Global instructional materials and supporting its
implementation by educators since 2014.
Betina Hsieh is Associate Professor of Teacher Education at California
State University, Long Beach, United States. She is the former chair
of the AERA Research on the Education of Asian Pacific Americans
SIG and co-author of The Racialized Experiences of Asian American
Teachers with Dr. Jung Kim.
Miriam Jorge is the Dr. Allen B. & Mrs. Helen Shopmaker Endowed Pro-
fessor of Education and International Studies at the University of Mis-
souri–St. Louis, United States. She is associate editor of the Brazilian
Journal of Applied Linguistics. Her current research interests include
critical literacies, social justice education, the internationalization of
teacher education, and academic literacies for international students
and scholars.
Shea N. Kerkhoff is a faculty member at University of Missouri–St.
Louis, United States. Her research on critical, digital, and global lit-
eracies has been published in Reading Research Quarterly and Teach-
ing and Teacher Education. She serves as AACTE’s Internationalizing
Teacher Education Chair and Education Director for the nonprofit
Going Global.
Alexandra Panos is Assistant Professor of Literacy Studies and Affiliate
Faculty in Measurement and Research in the College of Education
xiv Contributors
at the University of South Florida. A former middle grades teacher,
abiding commitments to critical, spatial, and ecologically informed
literacies guide her focus on the ecojustice dimensions of scholarship,
teaching, and learning.
Emily Polk is Advanced Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rheto-
ric at Stanford University, United States. Her courses focus on global
development, climate change, and environmental justice, and invite
students to interrogate the discourses (and assumptions) around the
approaches, methods, and ideologies regarding how and when social
change happens.
Katherine Eliana Roberson has 12 years of experience as a language edu-
cator across diverse educational settings between Colombia and the
United States. She is in her 2nd year of the PhD program in Language
and Literacy at the University of South Carolina. Her research inter-
ests are translanguaging, transliteracies, and equity pedagogy.
Rebecca Rogers is the E. Des Lee Endowed Professor of Tutorial Edu-
cation and Curators’ Distinguished Research Professor of Literacy
Studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, United States. She
is a Fulbright Fellow. Her research centers on clinically rich literacy
teacher education, anti-racist family engagement with schools, and
critical discourse studies.
Zaline Roy-Campbell is a faculty member at Syracuse University. She
taught at the University of Dar Salaam in Tanzania for six years where
she was engaged in research on language of instruction in Tanzania.
Her current research interests are in multicultural literacies, dual lan-
guage instruction, and translanguaging.
Lenny Sánchez is a faculty member in literacy and language education
at University of South Carolina in the United States where he is co-
Director of the Bilingualism Matters Center. His primary research
focuses on critical and cultural literacies. His work has been published
in Research in the Teaching of English, Journal of Literacy Research,
Teachers College Record, among other journal and book venues.
Michael B. Sherry is Associate Professor of English Education at US Uni-
versity of South Florida, and co-director of the Tampa Bay Area Writ-
ing Project. His research, teaching, and service focus on how discourse
can enable or inhibit teaching and learning opportunities, especially
teacher feedback on student talk and writing.
Emily Skaug is a first-grade teacher at an arts magnet school for Metro
Nashville, TN, United States.
Hiller A. Spires is Executive Director and Professor Emerita, North
Carolina State University, United States. With over 200 peer-reviewed
Contributors xv
publications, she conducts research on literacy, inquiry-based learn-
ing, and digital literacies. She edited Digital Transformation & Inno-
vation in Chinese Education and was lead author of Read, Write,
Inquire—Disciplinary Literacy in Grades 6–12.
Lina Trigos-Carrillo is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish
and Language at Universidad del Norte, in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Her research focuses on critical literacies, community literacies, peace
education, teacher development, multilingual education, and geopoli-
tics of knowledge in literacy research.
Lili Wang is a PhD candidate at North Carolina State University, United
States. Her research examines technology-integrated EFL instruc-
tion, media literacy, and project-based inquiry. She taught Business
English at Wenzhou University, China for ten years; now she is Profes-
sional Development Director at Guangdong Country Garden School
in Guangzhou, China.
Diane Watt is an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
She teaches courses in literacies, digital technologies, global education,
and feminist perspectives. Her research on Muslim women’s identities
is published in Journal of Literacy and Technology, Media and Com-
munication, and Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.
Allen Webb is a professor of English at Western Michigan University,
United States. He is the author or co-author/co-editor of ten books
and 40 articles or book chapters. Webb has presented at over 100 con-
ferences, including several keynote addresses, maintains 10 websites,
and has won five grants totaling 1.5 million dollars.
Jacqueline Yahn is an assistant professor of teacher education at Ohio
University, United States. Yahn’s work examines: 1) the impact rural
industries have on school funding and community capitals; 2) societal
issues relevant to rural schools and communities; and 3) the theory
and practice of community- and career-connected learning.
Foreword
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Yoon, B. (2016). Critical literacies: Global and multicultural perspectives.
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Yoon, B. (2018). Bringing critical global perspectives into the English curriculum.
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Acknowledgements
Shea and Hiller would like to thank the contributors of the chapters who
have inspired us with their work. We appreciate the peer reviewers for
their feedback and the Routledge staff for their editorial support. We
would also like to thank Dr. Bogum Yoon for her thought-provoking
foreword.
Introduction
Towards an Overarching
Definition of Global Literacies
Shea N. Kerkhoff and Hiller A. Spires
Introduction
As a response to a continuously changing and connected world, this book
explores research, theory, and practice in the field of global literacies. Our
view of global literacies is grounded in the International Literacy Asso-
ciation’s (2021) definition of literacies as “the distinct written and oral
language practices evident across varying social circumstances, domains,
and classes.” These practices include reading, writing, and communicat-
ing using multiple modalities of texts. According to this definition, litera-
cies are social and therefore situated, relational, and cultural in nature.
In other words, literacies are situated in a particular time and occur in
a locality. Being globally literate includes awareness of historical and
political contexts and respect of cultural and linguistic diversity. Readers
and writers draw on social, historical, political, and cultural knowledge
to make meaning. Literacies are also relational, providing a means of
participation, interaction, and communication with others, and cultural
with culturally specific practices and norms. Literacies also hold potential
to be empowering, with power to change the world. Thus, for the pur-
poses of this book, our definition of global literacies is literacies needed
to learn and communicate in, about, with, and for an interconnected and
inclusive world.
Our definition of global literacies is conceptualized based on the the-
ories of cosmopolitanism, global meaning-making, new literacies, and
multiliteracies. We derive our definition by synthesizing current defini-
tions from literacy theorists, who define global literacy/ies in a variety
of ways, including with an emphasis on cosmopolitanism (Choo, 2018),
plural epistemologies and Indigenous ways of knowing (Tierney, 2018),
and criticality (Yoon, 2016). Dwyer (2016) adds literacy as a human
right to her conceptualization of global literacy. Addey (2018) offers a
unique perspective by critiquing those (e.g., UNESCO) who attempt to
define global literacy, claiming literacy should be localized and autono-
mous. We chose to use the term global literacies, in the plural form rather
than the customary global literacy, to acknowledge multiple modalities
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and manifestations (i.e., multiliteracies as conceptualized by New London
Group, 1996). In addition, the plural signifies the new constantly evolving
literacies (i.e., New Literacies as conceptualized by Leu et al., 2019) that
are required for participating in modern life. Global literacies in, about,
with, and for an interconnected and inclusive world include:
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teaching literature. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 62(1), 7–12.
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and communicate. The Reading Teacher, 70(1), 131–136.
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Routledge.
Hauerwas, L. B. , Kerkhoff, S. N. , & Schneider, S. B. (2021). Glocality, reflexivity,
interculturality, and worldmaking: A framework for critical global teaching. Journal of
Research in Childhood Education, 35(2), 185–199.
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A mixed methods study on integrating global competence and teacher education.
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learning. Open University Press.
Leu, D. J. , Kinzer, C. K. , Coiro, J. , Castek, J. , & Henry, L. A. (2019). New literacies: A dual-
level theory of the changing nature of literacy, instruction, and assessment. In D. E.
Alvermann , N. J. Unrau , M. Sailors , & R. B. Ruddell (Eds.), Theoretical models and
processes of literacy (pp. 319–346). Routledge.
Morrell, E. (2008). Critical literacy and urban youth: Pedagogies of access, dissent and
liberation. Routledge.
NAFSA: Association of International Educators (2020). Looking back and looking forward:
Global studies literature review no. 10. www.nafsa.org/professional-resources/research-and-
trends/global-studies-literature-review/global-studies-literature-review-no-10
National Education Association (2010). Global competence is a 21st century imperative.
National Education Association.
New London Group (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard
Educational Review, 66(1), 60–92.
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https://asiasociety.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/teaching-for-global-competence-in-
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Rapoport, A. (2010). We cannot teach what we do not know: Indiana teachers talk about
global citizenship education. Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice, 5(3), 179–190.
Rizvi, F. (2008). Epistemic virtues and cosmopolitan learning. The Australian Educational
Researcher, 35(1), 17e35.
Said, E. (1979). Orientalism. Pantheon.
Spires, H. , Himes, M. , & Lee, C. , & Gambino, A. (2021). “We Are the future”: Embracing the
potential for critical literacy and social action. Journal of Literacy Research, 53(2), 219–241.
Tierney, R. J. (2018). Toward a model of global meaning making. Journal of Literacy
Research, 50(4), 397–422.
Tierney, R. J. , Smith, G. H. , & Kan, W. (2021). Global literacies research diversity: A
manifesto for change. Journal of Literacy Research, 53(3), 294–312.
UNESCO (2015). Global citizenship education: Topics and learning objectives. UNESCO.
USDOE (2017). Global and cultural competency framework.
https://sites.ed.gov/international/global-and-cultural-competency/
Vasquez, V. M. , Janks, H. , & Comber, B. (2019). Critical literacy as a way of being and
doing. Language Arts, 96(5), 300–311.
Yoon, B. (2016). Critical literacies. Springer.