NC State College of Education Professor Emerita Hiller Spires is helping to develop a unique definition of global literacies through a new book while also working to promote literacy internationally through a recently founded organization that provides books to under-resourced areas.
Critical Perspectives on Global Literacies: Bridging Research and Practice, published by Routledge and co-edited with College of Education alum Shea Kerkhoff ’16PHD, synthesizes professional literature and draws from multiple dynamic theories – including cosmopolitanism, critical pedagogy, global meaning making, multiliteracies and new literacies – to create a four-dimensional definition of global literacies.
These dimensions include:
- Literacy as a human right in all nations around the world
- Critical reading and creation of multimodal texts about global…
