Tulevaisuuden kansalaisia rakentamassa

Abstract

The concept of new literacies refers to new forms of literacy. The meaning of literacy is constantly changing as new technologies and new social practices emerge. To be literate in the future means being able to use a combination of new technologies and new social practices that have not yet appeared. This has important implications for education. In this paper, we analyse Finnish educational policy and strategy papers from 1998 to 2014 conducting textmining and traditional close reading. By means of lexical dispersion we separate three distinct time periods: before 2005, the years 2005–2010 and after 2010. By close reading and topic modeling, we examine the emergence of new literacies in our research material and how thisis related to the sociocultural contexts of each period of time.

Health Education Teachers’ Contributions to Students’ Multiliteracy Learning

“…The way teachers understand the concept of multiliteracy forms the basis of teaching it. Tanhua-Piiroinen et al (2020) noted that Finnish teachers comprehended multiliteracy more narrowly than the way it is defined in the curriculum for basic education. The interviewed teachers viewed multiliteracy primarily as a critical approach to interpreting different types of texts, images, and charts.…”

“…According to these teachers, students practiced critical thinking by comparing different information sources with each other and determining what is the most credible and why. Teaching a more critical stance towards information was not the teachers' priority, because they saw that young people recognized fake news and alternative information (Tanhua-Piiroinen et al, 2020).…”

“…Hirvonen & Palmgren-Neuvonen, 2019;Kalantzis et al, 2010), critical thinking and learning (Palsa & Ruokamo, 2015), and information interpretation, evaluation, and production (e.g. Nygård et al, 2020a;Tanhua-Piiroinen et al, 2020) are in this study taken into account as its elements. Some elements of new literacies have also been highlighted in the curriculum and considered in this study, most importantly information-seeking and evaluation (e.g.…”