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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Abstract

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.

Creators(s): Govender, Navan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6764-1169;
Item type:Other
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:03 Jun 2020 01:11
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URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/70336
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