Critical Literacies ― Global and Multicultural Perspectives

This book offers comprehensive coverage of critical literacies by pursuing a balanced approach to theory, research, and practice. By clarifying the gaps among the frameworks of critical literacies, the author discusses new ways of approaching them from global and multicultural perspectives and provides an instructional model of critical global literacies that draws on her own experience and an extensive literature review. This insightful book also documents teachers’ case studies, focusing on their voices and instructional approaches in diverse classrooms. The author critically analyses the case studies and offers important suggestions for future research and practice.

Bogum Yoon, Ph. D. is an associate professor of literacy education in the Graduate School of Education at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She has worked in the field of language and literacy as a teacher educator, both in South Korea and the United States. Her research interests include critical literacies, global and multicultural education, and immigrant English language learners. Her work has been published in theAmerican Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Middle Grades Research Journal, and the Reading Teacher. Yoon’s edited books,Teachers’ Roles in Second Language Learning: Classroom Applications of Sociocultural Theory, and Critical Literacy Practice: Applications of Critical Theory in Diverse Settings, illustrate that her scholarship interest is in making a close link between theory and practice. This book, Critical Literacies: Global and Multicultural Perspectives shows Yoon’s teaching and scholarship committment to teacher education.