Global Citizenship for Adult Education: Advancing Critical Literacies for Equity and Social Justice

411 Pages·2021·4.531 MB·English

by  Petra A. Robinson, Kamala V. Williams, Maja Stojanović

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“This book provides an excellent framework for understanding what citi-
zenship looks like in this changing world. To be an active citizen, one needs
to be aware that literacy is more than reading, writing, and math. The way
that technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives means that we need
more knowledge about how to receive, interpret, filter, and understand the
impact and content. This book provides a framework for understanding
these many different literacies.”
—M ichelle Glowacki- Dudka, Professor of Adult, Higher,
and Community Education, Ball State University, USA
“The book is a significant and desperately needed critical work in the
fields of adult, professional, community, human resource development,
and higher education. Robinson, Williams, and Stojanović have collected
insights from around the world to expand and explain in-d epth the liter-
acies necessary for today’s realities of diversity, identity, global citizenship,
and social justice. They also provide concrete resources for relating theory
to practice in youth and adult literacy education. I find it to be a ‘must-
read’ for graduate adult education programs and for all of us who seek to
identify and enact critical cosmopolitan values, learning, and interactions.”
— Joellen E. Coryell, Assistant Dean for Educational
Partnerships and Enrollment and Professor of Graduate
Programs in Adult, Professional, and Community Education,
Texas State University, USA
“In its global reach, this volume does what we have lacked for too long in
adult education research and practice: coming together to face the critical
issues of the world. The book provides comprehensive guidelines for the
politics of integration, global dialogue, and hope. The book demonstrates
the life- sustaining bonds of reciprocity and belonging that binds us together
and demands that we must act together to overcome the idols of capitalism
and personal creed that pervert humanity and nurture the current inequal-
ities and injustices.”
— Juha Suoranta, Professor of Adult Education,
Tampere University, Finland
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Global Citizenship for Adult Education

This book promotes the development of nontraditional literacies in adult
education, especially as these critical literacies relate to global citizenship,
equity, and social justice. As this edited collection argues, a rapidly chan-
ging global environment and proliferation of new media technologies have
greatly expanded the kinds of literacies that one requires in order to be an
engaged global citizen. It is imperative for adult educators and learners
to understand systems, organizations, and relationships that influence our
lives as citizens of the world. By compiling a comprehensive list of foun-
dational, sociocultural, technological and informational, psychosocial and
environmental, and social justice literacies, this volume offers readers the-
oretical foundations, practical strategies, and additional resources.
Petra A. Robinson, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Leadership
and Human Resource Development at Louisiana State University (LSU).
She is also Director of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development in
the College of Human Sciences and Education at LSU.
Kamala V. Williams, PhD, is the manager of the Prairie View A&M
University Northwest Houston Center, an off- campus instructional site
in Houston Texas. She is a former coordinator for the Center for Urban
School Partnerships at Texas A&M University, with many years of
teaching experience.
Maja Stojanović is a doctoral student in the School of Leadership and
Human Resource Development and a graduate assistant in the Office of
Faculty Affairs and Professional Development in the College of Human
Sciences and Education at LSU. She has a background in teaching English
to adult learners.
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Global Citizenship for

Adult Education
Advancing Critical Literacies
for Equity and Social Justice
Edited by Petra A. Robinson,
Kamala V. Williams, and
Maja Stojanović
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First published 2022
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Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data
Names: Robinson, Petra A., editor. | Williams, Kamala V., editor. |
Stojanovic, Maja (Adult educator) editor.
Title: Global citizenship for adult education: advancing critical
literacies for equity and social justice / Edited by Petra A. Robinson,
Kamala V. Williams, & Maja Stojanovic.
Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021000371 (print) | LCCN 2021000372 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367505882 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367505875 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003050421 (ebook) | ISBN 9781000403398 (adobe pdf) |
ISBN 9781000403404 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Adult education. | World citizenship. |
Educational equalization. | Social justice and education.
Classification: LCC LC5215 .G55 2021 (print) |
LCC LC5215 (ebook) | DDC 374–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021000371
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Contents

Notes on Contributors xii

Foreword xxv

HASSANA ALIDOU
Preface xxxi

MAJA STOJANOVIĆ AND PETRA A. ROBINSON
Acknowledgments xxxvii

PETRA A. ROBINSON, KAMALA V. WILLIAMS, AND
MAJA STOJANOVIĆ
PART I
Introduction 1

1 The Critical Literacies Advancement Model: Its
History, Evolution, and Future Potential 3

PETRA A. ROBINSON
PART II
Foundational Literacies 9

2 Mother Tongue Literacy: A Glocal Perspective 11

ZBIGNIEW P. MOŻEJKO
3 Adult Learners of Color as Aspiring Teachers:
Developing Standard Literacy to Teach Standard Literacy 20

MARY MCGRIFF AND GEORGE E. JACKSON
4 The Role of Science Literacy in Critical Multiliteracy
Advancement: Developing Competences for Fairer
Knowledge Societies 30

PAOLA CATENACCIO
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5 Futures Literacy for Adult Learning: Hopeful Futures
in Complex Worlds 42

M. JAYNE FLEENER
Practical Resources 55

6 Setting Foundations for Critically Thinking Global
Citizens: Developing Foundational Literacies 57

JACOB E. BRUMFIELD AND MAJA STOJANOVIĆ
PART III
Sociocultural Literacies 61

7 Are We Multilingual Yet? A 21st- Century Approach to
Understanding Multilingual Literacy Skills 63

MAJA STOJANOVIĆ
8 Stories of Socialism from a Capitalist Perspective: A
North Korean Refugee’s Online Graphic Novel for
Positive Social Change 72

JINHEE CHOI
9 US Higher- Education Institutions and Their Visions
for Developing Globally Literate Students: Goals for
Advancing Equity and Social Justice 84

KAMALA V. WILLIAMS
Practical Resources 97

10 There’s No Society Without a Language and No
Global Society Without Global Understanding:
Developing Global Understanding Through
Sociocultural Literacies 99

MAJA STOJANOVIĆ
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PART IV
Human and Social Justice Literacies 103

11 Is Literacy a Multidimensional Concept? Some
Empirical Evidence 105

GEORGIOS A. PANOS, THEOCHARIS KROMYDAS,
MICHAEL OSBORNE, AND ROBERT E. WRIGHT
12 Gender Literacy: Becoming Illiterate to Become Literate 124

PETRA A. ROBINSON
13 Endarkening, Engendering, and Embodying:
Theorizing Intersectional Racial Literacy 136

KEISHA L. GREEN, ESTHER O. OHITO, JAMILA J. LYISCOTT,
AND SUSAN E. WILCOX
14 Identity Literacy: Relative to Understanding People
and Relevant to Functioning in a Global Society 149

KALA BURRELL-C RAFT
15 Educational Development as a Vehicle for
Creating Equity- Minded Adult Educators:
A US Higher- Education Perspective 156

CHINA M. JENKINS, VICTORIA CARTER- JONES,
AND NORVELLA P. CARTER
16 Advancing Moral Literacy in Educational Preparation:
Developing Civic and Ethical Educators for a Socially
Just World 166

CHARLES L. LOWERY
17 Human Rights Literacy: A Perspective in the New
Technological Landscape 178

VERONICA M. STEFAN
18 Seeing in the Dark: A South African Leader’s
Reflections on Critical Literacy Leadership in a
Nonprofit Organization 188

WARREN CHALKLEN AND LORENZO DAVIDS