Exploiting liquid racism texts within the multiliteracies framework Critical literacy proposals and teachers' attitudes
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In this article, we present indicative teaching proposals for the critical exploitation of texts reproducing an ambiguous form of racism, i.e. liquid racism (Weaver, 2016). Following the multiliteracies model (Kalantzis & Cope, 2012), the goal of our proposal is to render students capable of identifying, questioning and attempting to change the racist positions put forward by (so-called) anti-racist discourse. In particular, we propose the critical analysis in class of a humorous narrative text with an anti-racist stance created by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The analysis is based on Bamberg’s (1997) narrative positioning model and on the General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo, 1994, 2001, 2020). Since the implementation of such proposal requires teachers’ involvement, we also attempt to detect the attitudes of a group of teachers towards critical literacy activities. Teachers’ attitudes were recorded through questionnaires after their participation in a seminar related to the critical exploitation of texts where liquid racism is attested. The investigation of participants’ responses brings to the surface both their positive attitudes and their reservations towards our critical teaching proposals. Overall, this study could form the basis for the future reworking both of our teaching proposals and of their application in educational settings.
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Σκούρα Ε., Τσάμη Β., & Αρχάκης Α. (2024). Exploiting liquid racism texts within the multiliteracies framework: Critical literacy proposals and teachers’ attitudes. Journal of Research in Education and Training, 17(1), 1–37. https://doi.org/10.12681/jret.34813
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