From Designing to Organizing New Social Futures: Multiliteracies Pedagogies for Today

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From Designing to Organizing New Social Futures: Multiliteracies Pedagogies for Today

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More than 20 years ago, literacy pedagogies informed by the emerging networked world defined by local diversity and global connectedness, new digital media and fast capitalism. Modern people now fully inhabit the world they described, but the contours of that world’s racial dynamics and growing inequality call for a refinement of pedagogies that embrace a more activist metaphor than that of design. Our pedagogies of multiliteracies must now embrace the ‘organizing of social futures’ in ways that apprentice young people to repertoires of collective action, in which literacy becomes more fully a means of supporting community efforts to promote and bring about more just futures.

Author/creator

Penuel, William R.

O’Connor, Kevin

Date

2018

In publication

Theory Into Practice

Volume

57

Issue

1

Pages

64-71

Resource type

en Background/Context

Medium

en Print

Background/context type

en Conceptual

ISSN

0040-5841

DOI

10.1080/00405841.2017.1411715

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Citation

Penuel, W. R., & O’Connor, K. (2018). From Designing to Organizing New Social Futures: Multiliteracies Pedagogies for Today. Theory Into Practice, 57(1), 64–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2017.1411715

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Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education

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