Creativity as Capital in the Literacy Classroom: Youth as Multimodal Designers

Autor/in	Walsh, Christopher S.
Titel	Creativity as Capital in the Literacy Classroom: Youth as Multimodal Designers
Quelle	In: Literacy, 41 (2007) 2, S.79-85 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-4350
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9345.2007.00461.x
Schlagwörter	Creativity; Literacy; Adolescents; Multimedia Materials; Curriculum Development; Student Characteristics; Educational Environment; Computer Uses in Education; Educational Technology; Teaching Methods; Informal Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Experiential Learning; Computer Literacy; Creative Activities; Design; Class Activities; Classroom Research; Imagination; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreativität; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Computernutzung; Unterrichtsmedien; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Computerkenntnisse
Abstract	Many school literacy practices ignore adolescents' new digitally mediated subjectivity as it has been shaped by the new media age. Youth possess often unappreciated repertories of practice which allow them to use their imagination and creativity to combine print, visual and digital modes in combinations that can be applied to new educational, civic, media and workplace contexts. This paper reports on research in two middle years classrooms in New York City's Chinatown, where students' design skills were recognised and validated when they were encouraged to critically re-represent curricular knowledge through multimodal design. The curriculum, rather than privileging print-only representations, recognised the linguistic, social, economic and cultural capital that different students brought to school. The findings suggest schools should harness youths' creativity--that often manifests itself through their capital resources--as they integrate and adapt to the new digital affordances acquired through their out-of-school literacy practices. (Author).
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