Shortlisted for the UK Literacy Association's Academic Book Award
2021 This volume explores the literacy education master's degree
program developed at Universidad de Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico,
with the aim of addressing the nation's emerging social, economic,
technological, and political needs. Developing the program required
taking into account the cultural diversity, historical economic
disparities, indigenous and colonial cultures, and power inequities
of the Mexican nation. These conditions have produced economic
structures that maintain the status quo that concentrates wealth
and opportunity in the hands of the very few, creating challenges
for the education and economic life for the majority of the
population. The program advocates providing tools for youth to
critique and change their surroundings, while also learning the
codes of power that provide them a repertoire of navigational means
for producing satisfying lives. Rather than arguing that the
program can be replicated or taken to scale in different contexts,
the editors focus on how their process of looking inward to
consider Mexican cultures enabled them to develop an appropriate
educational program to address Mexico's historically low literacy
rates. They show that if all teaching and learning is
context-dependent, then focusing on the process of program
development, rather than on the outcomes that may or may not be
easily applied to other settings, is appropriate for global
educators seeking to provide literacy teacher education grounded in
national concerns and challenges. The volume provides a process
model for developing an organic program designed to address needs
in a national context, especially one grounded in both colonial and
heritage cultures and one in which literacy is understood as a tool
for social critique, redress, advancement, and equity.
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