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Youth Forging Culturally Sustaining Multimodal Literacies to Counter Dominant Deficit Discourses

Sat, December 3, 8:30 to 10:00am, Omni Nashville, Floor: Level 2, Music Row 2

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium offers three papers that demonstrate how youth employ various media - from oral and written literacies to multimodal visual and audio literacies - to amplify their voices and offer counternarratives to prevailing deficit narratives about themselves, their language practices, and their communities in both formal and informal learning environments.

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