Literacies in Local and Global Contexts

This subject introduces students to the range of ways in which literacy can support and empower learning and social change in local and global contexts. Grounded in critical scholarship and a dialogic approach to teaching and learning, the subject challenges the notion of literacy beyond school-based technicism to expand students’ understanding of literacy as an identity lens, embracing indigenous, socio-cultural, political, historical, ecological, vocational, translingual, transnational and literary aspects, all of which are impacted by local and global contexts. To capture this breadth and depth, the subject considers the application of these diverse aspects of literacy to early childhood contexts, schools, workplaces and social communities.