Session Information
20 SES 10 A, ‘Super-Diversity’ in Urban Areas and their Schools: Research on Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
Symposium
Contribution
This paper focuses on the implications of the increasing normalisation of mobile devices in the everyday lives of young people for schools and learning. One of the main challenges for schools is to reappraise attitudes towards media of everyday life and move away from a tradition of viewing them as objects of enquiry around which critical (media) literacy needs to be developed. Mobile devices need to be viewed as part of a social, cultural, media-related, technological and semiotic transformation; they are cultural resources in relation to which schools need to position themselves. These developments are closely linked to new literacy practices and perspectives of text as multimodal, open and consisting of – mostly digital – building blocks that are to be assembled, re-assembled and re-purposed according to context, rather than fixed and mostly comprising of written words. This sits ill at ease with currently prevailing notions of literacy, which tend to focus on an understanding of reading and writing of traditional texts as cultural practices. The paper will examine the importance of social segmentation and milieus and their impact on the media and literacy habitus of young people.
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