Critical literacy and multi-modal study

What is it about?

Student learning materials are becoming highly multi-modal in character and the paper questions whether such materials do assist students to develop their critical literacy. Academic disciplines within the university may vary strongly in their perspectives on how students' critical and creative abilities should be fostered and the paper gives a means by which various academic points of view on this may be reconciled.

Featured Image

Why is it important?

The paper suggests how Ong's (1982) writing on literacy and orality provides a practical means to assist scholars to better understand their teaching role.