JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT & ADULT LITERACY
Scope & Guideline
Inspiring Change through Literacy Scholarship
Introduction
Aims and Scopes
- Multimodal Literacy Practices:
The journal emphasizes the importance of multimodal literacy, exploring how various forms of communication (text, visual, digital) can enhance understanding and engagement in literacy education. - Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy:
A core focus is on culturally sustaining pedagogy, which advocates for teaching practices that recognize and honor students' cultural backgrounds, thereby fostering inclusivity and equity in literacy instruction. - Critical Literacy and Social Justice:
The journal promotes critical literacy as a means to empower students to challenge social norms and injustices, encouraging them to engage with texts and media in ways that foster critical thinking and activism. - Digital Literacy and Technology Integration:
Research in the journal reflects a growing interest in the integration of digital literacy and technology in teaching practices, exploring how these tools can enhance literacy development and engagement among learners. - Collaborative Learning and Community Engagement:
The journal highlights the significance of collaborative learning experiences and community engagement in literacy education, emphasizing partnerships between educators and communities to support diverse learners.
Trending and Emerging
- Digital Storytelling and Media Literacy:
There is a growing trend in exploring digital storytelling as a means to enhance media literacy, particularly how adolescents engage with and create digital content in educational settings. - Translanguaging and Multilingual Education:
Emerging research increasingly focuses on translanguaging practices, recognizing the fluidity of language use among multilingual learners and how these practices can enrich literacy instruction. - Youth Activism and Literacy:
The intersection of literacy and youth activism is gaining prominence, emphasizing how literacy education can empower students to engage in civic action and social justice initiatives. - Critical Media Literacy:
There is an uptick in studies addressing critical media literacy, highlighting the importance of teaching students to analyze and critique media messages and representations in today's digital landscape. - Emotional and Affective Literacies:
Research is increasingly acknowledging the role of emotional and affective literacies in literacy education, exploring how emotions influence learning and engagement in literacy practices.
Declining or Waning
- Traditional Literacy Instruction:
There is a noticeable decrease in publications focused on traditional literacy instruction methods, as the field increasingly embraces more progressive and inclusive pedagogies. - Standardized Literacy Assessments:
Research on standardized assessments and their role in literacy education has diminished, reflecting a growing critique of such measures and a shift towards more holistic and formative assessment practices. - Monolingual Literacy Practices:
Themes surrounding monolingual literacy practices are less frequently addressed, as the journal increasingly focuses on multilingualism and the literacy needs of diverse language learners. - Text-Centric Approaches:
There is a decline in research centered solely on text-centric approaches to literacy, as the field moves towards recognizing the importance of context, audience, and various modes of communication. - Literature Canon and Canonical Texts:
The focus on canonical literature and traditional literary texts is waning, as the journal seeks to highlight diverse voices and texts that reflect contemporary issues and marginalized perspectives.
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