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Global Citizenship for Adult Education Advancing Critical Literacies for Equity and Social Justice
This book promotes the development of nontraditional literacies in adult education, especially as these critical literacies relate to global citizenship, equity, and social justice. As this edited collection argues, a rapidly changing global environment and proliferation of new media technologies have greatly expanded the kinds of literacies that one requires in order to be an engaged global citizen. It is imperative for adult educators and learners to understand systems, organizations, and relationships that influence our lives as citizens of the world. By compiling a comprehensive list of foundational, sociocultural, technological and informational, psychosocial and environmental, and social justice literacies, this volume offers readers theoretical foundations, practical strategies, and additional resources.
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Hassana Alidou
Preface
Maja Stojanović and Petra A. Robinson
Acknowledgements
Petra A. Robinson, Kamala V. Williams, and Maja Stojanović
PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. The Critical Literacies Advancement Model: Its History, Evolution, and Future Potential
Petra A. Robinson
PART II. FOUNDATIONAL LITERACIES
2. Mother Tongue Literacy: A Glocal Perspective
Zbigniew P. Możejko
3. Adult Learners of Color as Aspiring Teachers: Developing Standard Literacy to Teach Standard Literacy
Mary McGriff and George E. Jackson
4. The Role of Science Literacy in Critical Multiliteracy Advancement: Developing Competences for Fairer Knowledge Societies
Paola Catenaccio
5. Futures Literacy for Adult Learning: Hopeful Futures in Complex Worlds
M. Jayne Fleener
PRACTICAL RESOURCES
6. Setting Foundations for Critically Thinking Global Citizens: Developing Foundational Literacies
Jacob Brumfield and Maja Stojanović
PART III. SOCIOCULTURAL LITERACIES
7. Are We Multilingual Yet? A 21st-Century Approach to Understanding Multilingual Literacy Skills
Maja Stojanović
8. Stories of Socialism from a Capitalist Perspective: A North Korean Refugee’s Online Graphic Novel for Positive Social Change
Jinhee Choi
9. US Higher-Education Institutions and Their Visions for Developing Globally Literate Students: Goals for Advancing Equity and Social Justice
Kamala V. Williams
PRACTICAL RESOURCES
10. There’s No Society Without a Language and No Global Society Without Global Understanding: Developing Global Understanding Through Sociocultural Literacies
Maja Stojanović
PART IV. HUMAN and SOCIAL JUSTICE LITERACIES
11. Is Literacy a Multidimensional Concept? Some Empirical Evidence
Georgios A. Panos, Theocharis Kromydas, Michael Osborne, and Robert E. Wright
12. Gender Literacy: Becoming Illiterate to Become Literate
Petra A. Robinson
13. Endarkening, Engendering, and Embodying: Theorizing Intersectional Racial Literacy
Keisha L. Green, Esther O. Ohito, Jamila Lyiscott, and Susan E. Wilcox
14. Identity Literacy: Relative to Understanding People and Relevant to Functioning in a Global Society
Kala Burrell-Craft
15. Educational Development as a Vehicle for Creating Equity-Minded Adult Educators: A US Higher-Education Perspective
China M. Jenkins, Victoria Carter-Jones, and Norvella P. Carter
16. Advancing Moral Literacy in Educational Preparation: Developing Civic and Ethical Educators for a Socially Just World
Charles L. Lowery
17. Human Rights Literacy: A Perspective in the New Technological Landscape
Veronica M. Stefan
18. Seeing in the Dark: A South African Leader’s Reflections on Critical Literacy Leadership in a Non-Profit Organization
Warren Chalklen and Lorenzo Davids
PRACTICAL RESOURCES
19. Developing Human and Social Justice Literacies Through Discussions of Twitter, Tunes, and Tacos
Tyler Robinson, Jacob E. Brumfield, and Maja Stojanović
PART V. PSYCHOSOCIAL and ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACIES
20. Emotional Literacy, Life-Long Learning, and Global Citizenship Education for Adult Distance Learners
Agnes Wei Lin Liau and George Boon Sai Teoh
21. The Impact of Health Literacy on Health Disparities and Health Equity
Paula A. Barbel
22. Fostering Proficiency in Food Literacy: A Framework for Igniting Positive Social Change
Susan E. Lowey
23. Exploring Adult Civic Education Policy and Curricula in Germany, Estonia, the United States, and Australia to Promote Critical Democratic Adult Education
Vera J. Lee, Amanda Reinsburrow, Bruce A. Levine, Leah Katherine Saal, and Katrina Struloeff
24. Financial Literacy and Its Challenges: An Overall Picture from Portugal
Anabela Mesquita, Adriana Oliveira, Paula Sauer, and Luciana Oliveira
25. Environmental Literacy for All
Petra Javrh
PRACTICAL RESOURCES
26. Healthy Bodies, Healthy Budget, and a Healthy Environment: Developing Psychosocial and Environmental Literacies
Ianthe Smith and Tyler Robinson
PART VI. TECHNOLOGICAL and INFORMATIONAL LITERACIES
27. Information Literacy Policies for a Global Information Society
Carla Basili
28. Media Literacy for Social Justice and Global Citizenship
Lesley S. J. Farmer
29. Remixing Visual Literacy for 21st Century Adult Education
Ken Mizusawa
30. Digital Literacy: Key to Equity and Social Justice in a Tech-Dependent World
Omobola O. Adelore and Solomon Ojedeji
31. Decolonizing Game Literacy
Bruno de Paula
32. The Cybersecurity Mindset: A Critical Literacy for Adult Learners
Jenny Daugherty and Melissa J. Dark
PRACTICAL RESOURCES
33. Learning from Pictures and Play: Digital Literacy Resources for the Classroom
Zachary Z. Robinson
CONCLUSION
34. (Becoming) a Global Citizen: A Critical Way Forward
Petra A. Robinson
Biography
Petra A. Robinson, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Leadership and Human Resource Development at Louisiana State University (LSU). She is also Director of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development in the College of Human Sciences and Education at LSU.
Kamala V. Williams, PhD, is the manager of the Prairie View A&M Northwest Houston Center, an off-campus instructional site in Houston Texas. She is a former coordinator for the Center for Urban School Partnerships at Texas A&M University, with many years of teaching experience.
Maja Stojanović is a doctoral student in the School of Leadership and Human Resource Development and a graduate assistant in the Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development in the College of Human Sciences and Education at LSU. She has a background in teaching English to adult learners.
"This book provides an excellent framework for understanding what citizenship looks like in this changing world. To be an active citizen, one needs to be aware that literacy is more than reading, writing, and math. The way that technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives means that we need more knowledge about how to receive, interpret, filter, and understand the impact and content. This book provides a framework for understanding these many different literacies." —Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Professor of Adult, Higher, and Community Education, Ball State University, USA
"The book is a significant and desperately needed critical work in the fields of adult, professional, community, human resource development, and higher education. Robinson, Williams, and Stojanović have collected insights from around the world to expand and explain in-depth the literacies necessary for today’s realities of diversity, identity, global citizenship, and social justice. They also provide concrete resources for relating theory to practice in youth and adult literacy education. I find it to be a 'must-read' for graduate adult education programs and for all of us who seek to identify and enact critical cosmopolitan values, learning, and interactions." —Joellen E. Coryell, Assistant Dean for Educational Partnerships and Enrollment and Professor of Graduate Programs in Adult, Professional, and Community Education, Texas State University, USA
"In its global reach, this volume does what we have lacked for too long in adult education research and practice: coming together to face the critical issues of the world. The book provides comprehensive guidelines for the politics of integration, global dialogue, and hope. The book demonstrates the life-sustaining bonds of reciprocity and belonging that binds us together and demands that we must act together to overcome the idols of capitalism and personal creed that pervert humanity and nurture the current inequalities and injustices." —Juha Suoranta, Professor of Adult Education, Tampere University, Finland
