New Approaches to Literacy: Multiliteracies, Functional and Critical Pedagogy

Democratising the classroom: a literacy pedagogy for the new generation

South African secondary students see themselves as a ‘new generation’, the first to come of age in the democratic nation. They are intelligent, politically aware and highly motivated, but very few currently stand a chance of achieving their goals of further education and professional careers (Taylor, Muller, Vinjevold, 2003). If the new South Africa is to realise the possibility of a just socie...

Participatory technologies, pedagogy 2.0 and information literacy

Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Abstract Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the impact participatory technologies have had on education and the information environment in which students operate. It seeks to define a pedagogical approach that will capitalize on the benefits of participatory technologies in the classroom and applies this " pedagogy 2.0 " to information li...

Deconstructing Binary Oppositions in Literacy Discourse & Pedagogy

Critical Pedagogy: An Overview

Measuring functional, communicative, and critical health literacy among diabetic patients.

OBJECTIVE Health literacy (HL), the capacity of individuals to access, understand, and use health information to make informed and appropriate health-related decisions, has been recognized as an important concept in patient education and disease management. This study examined the psychometric properties of newly developed scales for measuring three different levels of HL (i.e., functional, com...