Building and Enhancing New

Literacies Across the Curriculum

6th Lecture

Globalization, Cultural and

Multicultural Literacies
 Multicultural Literacy

• Aim: Understand multicultural literacies –

its nature and skills
• Activity: Identify reasons why conflicts
among groups of people (identity, values,
worldviews)
 Analysis: Multicultural Literacy
1. Knowledge and skills necessary to ensure that
communication with a different culture is clear, productive
and respectful and any differences is celebrated and not
demeaned or treated as inferior. In America, the key is to
identify the origin of knowledge to foster equality, diversity
and social justice. In Europe, the key is intercultural
communication competence for clear and productive
communication with other cultures. There is an increasing
demand for multicultural sensitivity, inclusion and diversity
in order to attain peace.
 Multicultural Literacy
2. Asia: Issue of Peace: Conflict of Territory, Search for
Inclusion or Maintain Identity?, Discrimination (racial,
religious, tribal, cultural, etc.), Root of Hatred.
3. Skills Needed for Multicultural Literacy: Be selfless;
good and useful things come from others; willingness to
compromise; accept limits; we cannot be friend with
everyone.
 Multicultural Literacy

4. Multicultural Pedagogies: Learn about other

cultures, Familiarize yourself with how
discrimination/prejudice appear in your own
culture, As you are so you will behave, Model
more and tell more.
 Multicultural Literacy

• Application: Why should you respect

and value people who are different from
you?
• Assessment: What is multicultural
literacy? What is globalization? What is
 Building and Enhancing New
Literacies Across the Curriculum
7th Lecture

Social Literacy
• Aim: Understand social literacy – its nature
and skills
• Activity: In your observation, what are the
common reasons why siblings fight each
other or have misunderstandings.
 Analysis: Social Literacy
• Development of social skills, knowledge and positive human values to act
positively and responsibly in a wide range of social settings; behavior with other
people that is morally upright (adhere to the standard of right and wrong), just
(promotes and rewards good and punishes wrongdoing) and equitable (fair
treatment) to promote positive and productive relations free from unfair
prejudices, hate and discrimination.
• Social Skills: Perception, Cognition and Performance
• Fundamental Ways: Greetings, Initiating Conversation, Understanding the
Listener, Empathizing, Reading Social Clues, Previewing or planning, Problem-
solving, Apologizing
• Application: Why is it sometimes very
hard to forgive? What would you do to
overcome it?
• Assessment: Give at least 3 goals of
social literacy?
• Aim: Understand how social literacy
is taught to children
• Activity: Why do we have socially
delinquent children or youths?
 Analysis: Teaching Social Literacy
• Key teachers of social literacy: parents and school
teachers
• How children learn social skills: normative and
communal; pragmatic and individualistic
• Issues in Teaching social skills: subjective standards of
morality; human nature
• Application: What would you do if you are
being bullied or being threatened by a bully?

• Assessment: How do you correct human

weaknesses and sinfulness?