Abstract: Over the past twenty years much work has been done by teachers of secondary English to describe and make explicit the semiotic resources used to access and critique the discourses of powerful institutions such as schooling. At the same time, however, there has been a growing recognition that the rhetorical resources needed for adolescents to engage with and transform their broader worlds may transcend the privileged practices of school curriculum areas. In this paper, I present a model of text and context relationships, which allows for a systematic exploration and description of adolescent transformative literacies in what I have termed the civic domain of adolescent lives. I illustrate how this model can be used to make visible the rhetorical resources deployed by a group of adolescents engaged in lobbying for a change to government policies towards children in Australian Immigration Detention Centres.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Access and Citation
Cited By Count: 5
AI Researcher Chatbot
Get quick answers to your questions about the article from our AI researcher chatbot