Developing Inclusive Pedagogies Through Critical Analysis of School and Media Texts

• In Event: Roundtable Session 21
  In Roundtable Session: Writing and Literacies SIG Roundtable 1. Critical Media Literacy and Democracy: Toward a Renewed Education System

Abstract

This paper addresses questions of social justice with regards to race, gender, class, locale in school and popular texts through a critical literacy and multiliteracies approach. The theoretical framework of inclusive pedagogy is employed to explain how a culturally responsive pedagogy builds on the assumption that all children have cultural resources. Through a multiliteracies approach to texts we illustrate through two lessons, one at the primary level and another at the secondary level, how real world examples can enable all children towards deeper comprehension of issues of social justice, equity and equality. The paper reiterates the importance of drawing on all children’s linguistic, cultural resources and home and community funds of knowledge for productive, inclusive pedagogy.

Authors

• Radha Iyer, Queensland University of Technology

• Annette Woods, Queensland University of Technology

• Barbara M. Comber, Queensland University of Technology