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Critical Literacy in Canada: A Systematic Review of Curricula and Literature

“…As teacher-researchers or teacher-participants, study participants assessed domination and power of the political economy (Lamoureux, 2020). They introduced units related to multiple literacies and engaged students in reading and exploring multimodal texts, doing inquiry, using digital technologies, producing multimodal texts, critically analysing multimodal texts, and discussing and reflecting on critical local and global issues (e.g., Begoray et al, 2014;Beach & Cleovoulou, 2014;Burke & Collier, 2017;Chambers & Radbourne, 2014;Higgins, 2011). Through exploration of different topics, teachers generated conversations about Indigenous ways of knowing while also reflecting on and articulating their personal conceptions of indigeneity (e.g., Memon et al, 2014).…”

“…A significant number of studies explored teachers' integration of multiple literacies into their pedagogies (e.g., Ast & Bickmore, 2014;Chambers & Radbourne, 2014;Gambarato & Dabagian, 2016;Moorhouse & Brooks, 2020;Pirbhai-Illich, 2010). Teachers incorporated Indigenous perspectives and encouraged the use of diverse learners' languages, providing a few opportunities for translanguaging in multilingual and multicultural classrooms.…”

Defining Effective Teaching in Environmental Education: A Georgia 4-H Case Study

“…Environmental education programs have resulted in changes in many aspects of students' lives. Students who participate in EE programs have exhibited greater knowledge (Ballantyne & Packer, 2002) and application of knowledge across multiple contexts, while being able to communicate such knowledge to others effectively (Chambers & Radbourne, 2014). Positive correlations also exist between standardized testing scores and programs which integrated EE into the curriculum (Lieberman & Hoody, 1998).…”