In the weeds: Critical literacy conversations with Allan Luke

Abstract

In this essay, I discuss Allan Luke’s influence on my own critical digital literacy research, beginning with the influence of his monograph “The Social Construction of Literacy in the Primary School” (1994/2018b) and continuing to the present day. I address some of his most admirable qualities: his way of talking about theory and practice with teachers; his efforts to bring critical literacy into the Australian national curriculum; his influence on scholarship in the US, but especially around the world; and his contributions as an editor who expanded what counts as education research and normative definitions of literacy outside mainstream ideals.

Keywords:

• Critical theory
• educational research
• educational theory
• language
• culture and literacy
• multicultural/diversity education

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