A Critical Social Literacy Project: Newfoundlanders Challenge The Shipping News |
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| Authors: | Barrie RC Barrell Roberta F Hammett |
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| Institution: | (1) Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, A1B 3X8 |
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| Abstract: | In this paper we challenge traditional classroom reading and writing practices by presenting a critique of a critical literacy project that used hypermedia as the vehicle for textual engagement and resistance. We begin with remarks that locate critical literacy within a postmodern world, explain why we invited our students in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University of Newfoundland to read The Shipping News (1993), and continue with an analysis of their constructed World Wide Web texts. In addition to the Web pages, our data consist of students' commentaries on the course assignments, emails to the instructors, and the Internet audience's responses to the site. Literacy emerges and expands well beyond its earlier restrictive text-based practices. It assumes a plurality of constructions and meanings that are situated within social engagements with the world in which the students live. |
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| Keywords: | Literacy Internet English language arts teacher education novels computer integration representation critical literacy ICT (information and communication technologies) Newfoundland |
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