ERIC Number: EJ1427582
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 26
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VSCO Stickers Unpeeled: Engaging Critical and Multiliteracies Pedagogy with Preservice English Teachers
Kelli A. Rushek; Katherine E. Batchelor; Julia Beaumont; Ava Shaffer; Delaney Barrett
Journal of Language and Literacy Education, v20 n1 2024
The purpose of this qualitative participatory research study was to explore what happens when English language arts (ELA) preservice teachers collaborate to develop multimodal, intersectional, and critical feminist empowerment literacy curricula. This study centered on the following research question: How do ELA preservice teachers make sense of how pop-cultural, multimodal texts such as VSCO stickers frame girlhood and womanhood? Multiple data were collected: audio and video recording transcripts of monthly Saturday workshops, artifacts, such as curriculum writing and workshop photographs, researcher journals, analytic memos, and a shared Google Drive of written student thinking. The constant comparative method was used to analyze and triangulate the data. Analyses of data revealed that preservice teachers were able to critically analyze consumerism relating to VSCO stickers and girlhood and were able to notice how stickers typecast and reify individualism while also navigating authenticity during self-selection and categorizing stickers. Additionally, data analysis demonstrated how critical literacies played a role in the preservice teachers' understanding of how several groups, communities, and individual voices were not recognized in the marketing and consumption of VSCO sticker packaging as well as providing additional gender biases in society.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Critical Literacy, English Instruction, Language Arts, Workshops, Photography, Consumer Economics, Teacher Collaboration, Feminism, Females, Diaries, Writing (Composition), Grounded Theory, Individualism, Gender Bias, Popular Culture, Multimedia Materials, Curriculum Development, Multiple Literacies, English Curriculum
Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. 315 Aderhold Hall, Athens, GA 30602. Tel: 706-542-7866; Fax: 706-542-3817; e-mail: jolle@uga.edu; Web site: http://jolle.coe.uga.edu
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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