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RETHINKING CRITICAL LITERACY IN THE NEW INFORMATION AGE
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, (2009)
  • Panayota Gounari, University of Massachusetts Boston
Abstract

This article looks at new information and communication technologies (ICTs) as sites of public pedagogy in that they produce particular forms of knowledge and literacies and reproduce representations that are always mediated through specific social relations. Public pedagogy as a process that constitutes a broader category beyond classroom practices, official curricula, and educational canons, extends to all sectors of human life, including virtual spaces. No longer restricted to traditional sites of learning such as educational or religious sites, public pedagogy produces new forms of knowledge and apprenticeship and new narratives for agency and for naming the world. Virtual spaces as sites of public pedagogy create, in turn, forms of literacy that go against traditional understandings of what constitutes a text. The article also attempts to discuss yet unrealized alternative directions in these virtual spaces, where critical literacy becomes emancipatory and an essential and powerful tool in the project for a radical pedagogy.

Keywords
  • ICT,
  • Literacy,
  • digital literacies,
  • critical pedagogy
Publication Date
2009
Citation Information
Panayota Gounari. "RETHINKING CRITICAL LITERACY IN THE NEW INFORMATION AGE" Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Vol. 6 Iss. 3 (2009)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/panayota_gounari/2/