Exploring Critical Digital Literacy Practices

Everyday Video in a Dual Language Context

By: Jessica Zacher Pandya

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Hardcover | 4 July 2018 | Edition Number 1

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146 Pages

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In this exploration of the everyday digital videomaking practices of students in a dual language, under-resourced school, Pandya examines the ways children interrogate their worlds, the kinds of identities they craft, and the language and literacy learning practices that emerge from digital video production. Using Bakhtinian and Bourdieusian lenses, the focus is particularly on vulnerable populations- including English language learners, immigrants, and children with special needs-who are often left out of innovative in- and out-of-school digital media projects, aiming to show the affordances for transformative social justice of videomaking as part of the ongoing regular curriculum. Two themes cut across the book: the ways children use and reuse language in the service of creating agentive identities and powerful texts, and analysis of children's and adults' social and cultural capital within the nested contexts of the classroom, school, district, and state, encompassing (but not limited to) arguments about bilingual education and dual-language programs, charter schools, English learner and immigration policies and special education policies in the U.S. The mix of pedagogical, methodological, contextual, social and political concerns woven throughout, and the real world context, make this book practical and informative at a number of levels, as well as adding significantly to theorization in this field.

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"This book provides a powerful and moving documentation of the struggles and importance of purposeful pedagogy and curriculum in one school over the long term, and an affirmation of the work of students, teachers and the school community. It offers a model of respectful collaboration between teachers, students, and researchers that acknowledges the agency of all involved, affirms the importance of resistance and action, while realistically acknowledging its complexity. This book will be warmly welcomed by teachers, teacher educators, school communities, and researchers, in its concern with new media, new literacies, contemporary schooling and social justice."

- Catherine Beavis, Deakin University, Australia

"This book is a goldmine for readers who want access to the latest thinking about integrating digital video creation into language and literacy-related curricula for children. Pandya treats digital video composition as a multifaceted, dynamic set of processes that engage children, teachers, and researchers in complex, multimodal endeavors."

-Jason Ranker, Portland State University, USA

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