Reflections on Identity and Culture: Using Multimodal Literacies to Reimagine Histories, Selves, and Communities

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Abstract

Envisioning more equitable educational futures amidst the multiply imbricated crises of our times requires an interrogation of past frameworks that have shaped and continue to shape literacy practices and pedagogies . In this paper, we build on lineages from culturally sustaining pedagogies to investigate the possibilities of multimodal tools for expanded conceptions of literacy and for (re)centering students’ cultures in classrooms. In so doing, we extend the construct of a pedagogy of transculturality, and we consider how the use of digital and multimodal tools, including GenAI, can be intentionally designed to create expansive semiotic spaces for students to reflect on, reconnect to, and reimagine their own and their communities’ futures beyond the now.

Authors

• Catherine Park, University of California - Berkeley

• Glynda A. Hull, University of California, Berkeley