1. what critical literacy practices migrant youth transfer from school to the material they read out of school, especially online material, and
2. how and why migrant youth activate these critical literacy skills out of school in multiple languages.
To explore these overall aims, the project will first investigate how teachers work with migrant and refugee-background youth to learn critical literacy practices within high school English classrooms. Second, it will identify how these youth approach the reading/viewing of material critically out of school. It will also explore what critical literacy resources these young people think they would benefit from in the future when reading out of school.
Finally, the project will determine how teachers, once they know about these students’ out-of-school practices and the resources they desire, can incorporate this knowledge into their future teaching practice.
Project timeline
2021- Obtain ethical clearance through QUT and Dep’t of Education. Start to gather/generate data in schools…..
2022 - Continue gathering/generate data in schools with teachers and migrant youth, and with migrant youth at home.
2022/23 - Run Design Workshops with youth to create their own bespoke critical literacy support resources/tools for use at home.
2023 - Work with teachers to design ways to embed the youth designs into classroom teaching and learning episodes.
2024 - Trial the tool in schools and at home.
[Conference presentations and publishing throughout].