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Title The how of a pedagogy of multiliteracies : designing social futures as an approach to the teaching of the Drum short stories
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4646
Date 2001
Author(s) Latha, Rizwana Habib
Abstract This article focusses on the how of A pedagogy of multiliteracies: designing social futures, devised by The New London Group, as an approach to the teaching of The Drum Decade: stories from the 1950 s edited by Michael Chapman. It will be argued that the combination of situated practice, overt instruction, critical framing and transformed practice advocated by the New London Group has the potential to develop the cultural, critical, visual and media literacies of learners, in accordance with principles laid down in the policy document for Language, Literacy and Communication in the senior phase of Curriculum 2005. As the focus in this pedagogical approach is on educators and learners being active participants in social change, this paper will include a discussion of some of the ways in which the short stories and journalistic exposés in The Drum Decade may be utilized to promote social transformation.
Subject(s) Drum magazine; Cultural literacy; South African literature; Critical literacy; Media literacy
Language en
Publisher Rand Afrikaans University
Type of publication Article
Identifier Latha, Rizwana Habib 2001,'The how of a pedagogy of multiliteracies: designing social futures as an approach to the teaching of the drum short stories', Journal for Language Teaching, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 41-51.; 0259-9570
Repository South Africa - University of South Africa (UNISA)
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