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"My Thoughts on Gun Violence": An Urban Adolescent's Display of Agency and Multimodal Literacies
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"My Thoughts on Gun Violence": An Urban Adolescent's Display of Agency and Multimodal Literacies

Vera J. Lee, Alysha Meloche, Allen Grant, Delia Neuman and Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo
Journal of adolescent & adult literacy, v 63(2), pp 157-168
01 Sep 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.944
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Education & Educational Research Social Sciences
The authors analyzed the multimodal presentation of one student in a seventh-grade social studies class situated in an urban charter school in the Northeastern United States. The student researched a specific problem that existed in his community and located solutions using web-based sources. The authors analyzed the student's classwork, focus group interview, and final project using Gee's critical discourse analysis approach to examine the use of language tasks. The student used text, design, visual art, and music to build relationships, identity, meaning, and purpose. The findings revealed that the project supported his development of agency, technology use, and multimodal literacies as he purposefully and meaningfully communicated with his audience about the issue of gun violence that impacted his community.

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