Exploring global literacies: playful provocations for connecting, resisting, and inspiring social action

Abstract

This multivoiced paper explores the diversity of forms and uses of literacies across cultures, languages and technologies. Rather than offering a unified theoretical proposal, it provides practical illustrations of the potential of global literacies as action through a range of genres produced by literacy educators located in different parts of the world. We hope that teachers and teacher educators in different places and institutions might find these short pieces generative in fostering critical conversations about language and power with their colleagues and students. We situate the concept of global literacies as integral to young people’s engagement as emerging citizens and as necessarily connected to local literacies.