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Multiliteracies pedagogy organized around four knowledge processes: experiencing, conceptualizing, analyzing, applying

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Description

The article applies the pedagogy of multiliteracies, in which literacy is treated as active meaning-making across multiple modes rather than sentence-bound rules of spelling and grammar. It states that "The pedagogy of Multiliteracies suggests transformative ways of knowing, the four ‘knowledge processes’: ‘experiencing, conceptualizing, analyzing and applying’", and these processes serve as an outline for educators' pedagogical actions. Each folk-tale thematic unit in the program was designed around these four processes, with tasks such as experiencing the known/new, conceptualizing by naming and with theory, analysing functionally and critically, and applying appropriately and creatively.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Implementation depends on the active roles of both teachers and learners as instruments of design in a multimodal environment, with teachers facilitating and creating motivating learning conditions

Constraints

  • The article frames the framework for early-childhood literacy instruction in multicultural preschool settings; assessment of multiliterate skills requires alternative methods such as portfolios rather than discrete-point testing

Target Learners

  • preschool children (5-year-olds) in multicultural classrooms

Learning Goals

  • critical thinking skills
  • multiliteracies and multimodal meaning-making
  • multicultural sensitivity

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Papadopoulos, I., & Bisiri, E. (2020). Fostering Critical Thinking Skills in Preschool Education: Designing, Implementing and Assessing a Multiliteracies-Oriented Program Based on Intercultural Tales. Multilingual Academic Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 8(1), 87–105. https://doi.org/10.46886/MAJESS/v8-i1/7263
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title Multiliteracies pedagogy organized around four knowledge processes: experiencing, conceptualizing, analyzing, applying
description The article applies the pedagogy of multiliteracies, in which literacy is treated as active meaning-making across multiple modes rather than sentence-bound rules of spelling and grammar.
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