Critical Reading in and out of School With Migrant Youth: Discerning Truth From Fake

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session One
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Literacy: Disrupting the Commonplace in Both In- and Out-of-School Literacy Settings (Table 12)

Abstract

This paper reports on a study capturing the voices of marginalised migrant youth in Australia learning to be critically literate in a post-truth world. These youth engage in complex online worlds posing opportunities and risks. Using qualitative, dialogic methods, and recontextualization as a conceptual construct, the study deliberately identified an essential site for empirical research – those of migrant youth in and out of high school - and engaged with them iteratively about their critical literacies. The paper identifies key critical literacy practices offered to them in school by teachers, and those used by the youth out-of-school. Drawing connections between in and out of school reading benefits migrant youth to strategically manage critical reading in complex, contemporary environments.

Author

• Jennifer Helen Alford, Griffith University
  Presenting Author