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- Title
Generating New Narratives: Examining Youths' Multiliteracies Practices in Youth Participatory Action Research.
- Authors
Marciano, Joanne E.; Vellanki, Vivek
- Abstract
This paper examines the multiliteracies practices (New London Group, 1996) of 20 high school students who participated in a weeklong summer research institute at the start of a 6-monthlong community-based youth participatory action research (YPAR) initiative. Data analyzed included 20 digital multimodal compositions produced by youths, individual interviews with youths, and observations of youths' participation in the YPAR initiative. Data analysis utilized theories of multiliteracies practices (New London Group, 1996) and culturally sustaining pedagogies (Paris & Alim, 2014) enacted across contexts of YPAR (Fine & Torre, 2004). Findings contribute new insights about students' multiliteracies practices in YPAR in two ways. First, we examine how learning about research methods shifted students' understandings of research and the role their experiences could play in YPAR. Second, we examine how students' digital literacies practices (Lankshear & Knobel, 2008) supported them in generating new narratives about their community in digital multimodal compositions. Finally, we consider how insights gained from our examination may support educators in developing and enacting culturally sustaining (Paris & Alim, 2014) learning contexts that build with students' multiliteracies practices as strengths while challenging persistent educational inequities.
- Subjects
COMMUNITY-based participatory research; CLASSROOM environment; VIRTUAL communities; PARTICIPATION; COMPUTER literacy; HIGH school students
- Publication
Research in the Teaching of English, 2022, Vol 56, Issue 3, p245
- ISSN
0034-527X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.58680/rte202231637