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Literacy and learning initiatives : post literacy and joint partnerships between a school and a university

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posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00 authored by Bernadette Walker-Gibbs
The central argument of this chapter is that the world has changed. The ways in which we have traditionally established our understandings of the world have proven to be inadequate for contemporary education systems in the context of a postmodern world where there is a saturation of media and visual images. Jean Baudrillard's concepts of simulcra, hyperreality and implosion, and seduction are used to construct a post-Literacy framework that is linked to a reconceptualising of generation, culture, knowledge and power within formal educational contexts. The major finding of this paper leads to a more complex understanding of literacies within and outside formal educational contexts. The paper also explores one attempt at beginning to address the changing nature of education by outlining a research project that was centred around research partnerships between schooling and university communities in order to broaden the participants' conceptions of how children engage with media in a futures oriented world. The research also explored how Learning Initiatives (a concept developed by a regional Queensland State School - Waraburra State School) could provide a framework for intergrating the curriculum, pedagogy, policy and practice of e-learning, media studies and futures driven discourses between the school, the university and the wider community.

Funding

Category 1 - Australian Competitive Grants (this includes ARC, NHMRC)

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Editor

Harrison AG; Knight BA; Walker-Gibbs B

Parent Title

Educational research partnerships, initiatives and pedagogy

Start Page

130

End Page

143

Number of Pages

14

ISBN-10

1876682752

Publisher

Post Pressed

Place of Publication

Flaxton, Qld.

Open Access

  • No

External Author Affiliations

Faculty of Education and Creative Arts;

Era Eligible

  • Yes

Number of Chapters

11

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