Global Meaning Making
Disrupting and Interrogating International Language and Literacy Research and Teaching
This book can be opened with
Note on our eBooks and Audiobooks: you can read our eBooks (ePUB or PDF) and listen to audiobooks on the free Emerald Books app on iOS, Android, and desktop. Or read and listen on Emerald's online reader (ePUB eBooks and audiobooks only). To purchase a digital book you will need to create an account if you don’t already have one. After purchasing you will receive instructions on how to get started.
- Description
- Contents
- About
We live in an increasingly interdependent and interconnected world. The COVID-19 crisis has provided a stark reminder of the enormous educational inequities within and across countries around the globe. Featuring international language and literacy researchers who apply various tenets of global meaning making to disrupt and interrogate contradictions and tensions in global scholarship, Global Meaning Making focuses on a model of interrogating international literacy research and pedagogical pursuits with the ultimate goal of transforming how we engage in global endeavours.
Organized around three major themes: Literacy Programs, Policies and Curriculum; Language of Instruction Policies and Practices and Engaging in Global Literacies, chapter authors reimagine global approaches that respect the histories, ways of knowing, needs, hopes and values of voices beyond the western, including those from the Global South: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and South and Central Americas. Each chapter outlines research the chapter authors are conducting or have conducted and describes implications for how their work utilizes tenets of global meaning making.
Preface; Robert Tierney
- Section 1. Literacy Programs, Policies and Curriculum
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Stitching a Global Meaning Making Patchwork Quilt; Patience Sowa, Katina Zammit, and Lori Czop Assaf
- Chapter 2. International Literacy Development in the Peruvian Amazon: Three Problematic Assumptions; Desirée Pallais-Downing
- Chapter 3. Becoming Global Meaning Makers: The Making and Remaking of Literacy Education Expertise and Practice in Belize; Odelia Caliz, Ray Lawrence, Rashid Murillo, Denise Neal, Jennifer Sanders, Yvonne Tyndall-Howell, and Deborah Williams
- Chapter 4. Tapasā: An Invitation to Decolonize Literacy Teacher Education in Aotearoa New Zealand; Jessica Cira Rubin and David Taufui Mikato Fa’avae
- Chapter 5. Academic literacies from the South to the South: Tensions and Advances in Three Initiatives Located in Ibero-America; María Constanza Errázuriz, Lucía Natale, and Juan Antonio Núñez Cortés
- Section 2. Language of Instruction Policies and Practices
- Chapter 6. Challenges and Practical Considerations of the Choice of Languages of Instruction in Low and Middle Income Countries; Patience Sowa
- Chapter 7. Challenging Existing Spaces: Deconstructing Indigenous Power Imbalances within Aotearoa New Zealand; Rachel Martin and Amanda Denston
- Chapter 8. Between Many Worlds: Which Language to use in Primary Schools - Mother Tongue, Vernacular, or English?; Carol Abiri and Katina Zammit
- Chapter 9. Community Mapping in One Rural Community in South Africa: Teacher Candidates Grapple with Colonizing Influences on Language and Literacy; Lori Czop Assaf, Kristie O’Donnell Lussier, and Meagan Hoff
- Section 3. Engaging in Global Literacies
- Chapter 10. Interrupting Existing Frames and Being Mindful: An Examination of Culturally Responsive Teachers of High Performing Immigrant and Refugee Youth in a German Secondary School; K. Dara Hill
- Chapter 11. Cosmopolitanism to Frame Teaching Global Literacies; Shea N. Kerkhoff and Ming Yi
- Chapter 12. “My Way is a Little Bit Wrong:” How Refugee-Background Students Negotiate the Boundaries of American Academic Literacies; Meagan Hoff
- Chapter 13. School Interrupted: Issues and Perspectives from COVID-19 Remote Teaching; Chinwe H. Ikpeze and Susan Schultz
- Chapter 14. Voices of Chinese Students: What Motivates them to Read?; Jiening Ruan and Susan Schultz
- Chapter 15. Conclusion; Katina Zammit, Lori Czop Assaf, and Patience Sowa
Lori Czop Assaf works at Texas State University in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She teaches undergraduate and graduate literacy courses and coordinates the Early Childhood- 6th ESL Undergraduate Program. Assaf directs a study abroad program in rural Eastern Cape of South Africa and conducts research in Chile. As a Fulbright Scholar, Lori worked in Indonesia with university faculty, local classroom teachers, and primary grade students teaching language and literacy instruction. Her research includes teacher education, writing instruction and multicultural teaching and learning with a special focus on emergent bilinguals and English language learners.
Patience Sowa is a Senior Literacy and Language Advisor in the International Education Division of RTI International’s International Development Group. She provides technical support to RTI country projects in literacy and language, and teacher professional development. Sowa has worked in multicultural and multilingual contexts in Africa, the Middle East and North America, as a teacher and teacher educator. Her research interests include preservice teacher preparation and teaching in bi/multilingual contexts. An international editorial board member of Teaching and Teacher Education, one of her recent publications is, “Higher grounds: Practical guidelines for forging learning pathways in upper primary education”.
Katina Zammit works at Western Sydney University in the School of Education. She teaches literacy courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching, and Deputy Dean, Katina guides the development and accreditation of teacher education programs and post-initial teacher education programs. Zammit works closely with colleagues in school and fellow academics in Australia and other countries to improve student engagement in learning and literacy outcomes for students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and/or living in poverty. Her research interests include multiliteracies, writing and creating texts in multiple modes, transformative pedagogies and pedagogical leadership.