1st Edition

Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy Education Confronting Digital Divides

Edited By Ernest Morrell, Jennifer Rowsell Copyright 2020
228 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Challenging the assumption that access to technology is pervasive and globally balanced, this book explores the real and potential limitations placed on young people’s literacy education by their limited access to technology and digital resources. Drawing on research studies from around the globe, Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy Education identifies social, economic, racial,... Read more

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Moving stories of inequity to stories of justice



Jennifer Rowsell, University of Bristol, UK & Ernest Morrell, University of Notre Dame, USA





Section 1: Macro perspectives: Big gaps, divides, and inequities





Chapter 2 - Searching for mermaids: Access, capital and the digital divide in a rural South African Primary School
Kerryn Dixon, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa





Chapter 3 - Divided digital practices: A story from Indigenous Australia
Inge Kral, The Australian National University, Australia





Chapter 4 - Storylines: Young people playing into change in agricultural colleges in Rural Ethiopia to address sexual and gender based violence
Hani Sadati, Claudia Mitchell & Lisa Starr, McGill University, Canada





Section 2: Meso perspectives: Making it work on the margins





Chapter 5 - Reframing the digital in literacy: Youth, arts, and misperceptions
Mia Perry, University of Glasgow, UK, Diane R. Collier, Brock University, Canada & Jennifer Rowsell, University of Bristol, UK





Chapter 6 - The potential of participatory literacies to challenge digital (civic) divides Nicole Mirra, Rutgers University, USA & Antero Garcia, Stanford University, USA





Chapter 7 - Youth people’s media use and social participation in Hong Kong: A perspective of digital use divide
Alice Y. L. Lee, Hong Kong Baptist University, China & Klavier J. Wang, The Education University of Hong Kong, China





Chapter 8 - From mothballed to meaningfully-used technology in Urban Catholic Schools
Nate Wills, University of Notre Dame, USA





Section 3: Micro perspectives: Race and social class digital divides in communities





Chapter 9 - Social class, literacies, and digital wastelands: Technological artifacts in a network of relations
Stephanie Jones & Jaye Johnson Thiel, University of Georgia, USA





Chapter 10 - Values, neoliberalism, and the digital divide: Nonwhite media makers and the production of meaning
Zithri Saleem & Negin Dahya, University of Washington, USA





Chapter 11 - Making it work in the Global South: Stories of digital divides in a Brazilian context
Cristiane Manzan Perine, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil & Jennifer Rowsell, University of Bristol, UK





Afterword

Biography

Jennifer Rowsell is the Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies at Brock University, Canada.





Ernest Morrell is the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education and the Director of the Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame, USA.