Heroes Like Me: Enacting Culturally Inclusive Digital Multimodal Literacies (CIDML) with African Immigrant Learners

• In Event: Multimodal Negotations of Language and Identity

Abstract

This study draws on an educational YouTube channel, OmoBerry, to construct the framework of culturally inclusive multimodal literacies. This inquiry illustrates how pedagogical practices that leverage multimodal resources and African indigenous knowledge foster inclusive literacy instruction for African immigrant children. The study uses grounded theory to analyze how OmoBerry YouTube channel integrated African historical artifacts and digital multimodal compositions as pedagogical resources for educating African [immigrant] youth.

Authors

• Akinkunmi Ibrahim Oseni, Michigan State University

• Vaughn W. M. Watson, Michigan State University