Can you see a social issue? (Re)Looking at everyday texts
Govender, Navan (2019) Can you see a social issue? (Re)Looking at everyday texts. The Anti-Racist Educator, Glasgow, Scotland.
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Scotland, as a modern western and increasingly globalised context, seems to sit between colonialism and postcolonialism: as an instrument and beneficiary of the British colonial empire, and as a context subsumed by English and Englishness as a most valued cultural commodity. Now, more than ever, it seems necessary 1) to see how power works through everyday language and texts in order to interrogate them and reimagine a more socially just future, and 2) to consider how diversity and difference can be viewed and used as a resource for sustainable futures. In my discussion here, I hope to explore three main ideas: One, how texts (in the broadest sense) are intrinsically related to issues of power in socio-cultural context. Two, how an analysis of texts might reveal the social issues and dominant ideologies of a place and time, and three, how critical literacy might enable the (re)reading and (re)writing of texts in ways that confront and challenge problematic relations of power. I begin with a brief discussion on texts and their relationship with power before exploring an example of an everyday text. Finally, I discuss two examples from my own practice as a researcher and lecturer in critical literacies (on a PGDE English programme) that serve to illustrate possibilities for personal and classroom practice.
| Author(s): | Govender, Navan  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6764-1169 | Item type: | Other |
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| ID code: | 70336 |
| Keywords: | critical literacy, decoloniality, critical multimodal discourse analysis, teaching english, Education, Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform , Education, Cultural Studies |
| Subjects: | Education Social Sciences > Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Education > Education |
| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date deposited: | 29 Oct 2019 10:45 |
| Last modified: | 09 Jan 2020 03:55 |
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| URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/70336 |
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