Stories from Inequity to Justice in Literacy Education: Confronting Digital Divides

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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, political and geographical factors which can limit populations’ access to technology, and outlines the negative impact this can have on literacy attainment. Reflecting macro, meso and micro inequities, chapters highlight complex issues surrounding the productive use of technology and the mobilization of multimodal texts for academic performance and illustrate how digital divides might be remedied to resolve inequities in learning environments and beyond. Contesting the digital divides which are implicitly embedded in aspects of everyday life and learning, this text will be of great interest to researchers and post-graduate academics in the field of literacy education. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Moving Stories of Inequity to Stories of Justice SECTION 1: Macro Perspectives: Big Gaps, Divides, and Inequities 2 Searching for Mermaids: Access, Capital, and the Digital Divide in a Rural South African Primary School 3 Divided Digital Practices: A Story From Indigenous Australia 4 Storylines: Young People Playing Into Change in Agricultural Colleges in Rural Ethiopia to Address Sexual and Gender- Based Violence SECTION 2 :Meso Perspectives: Making It Work on the Margins 5 Reframing the Digital in Literacy: Youth, Arts, and Misperceptions 6 The Potential of Participatory Literacies to Challenge Digital (Civic) Divides 7 Young People’s Media Use and Social Participation in Hong Kong: A Perspective of Digital Use Divide 8 From Mothballed to Meaningfully Used: Technology in Urban Catholic Schools SECTION 3: Micro Perspectives: Race and Social Class Digital Divides in Communities 9 Social Class, Literacies, and Digital Wastelands: Technological Artefacts in a Network of Relations 10 Values, Neoliberalism, and the Digital Divide: Nonwhite Media Makers and the Production of Meaning 11 Making It Work in the Global South: Stories of Digital Divides in a Brazilian Context Afterword Index