The manifesto and various papers are anchored in the view that literacy education should draw upon a range of teaching practices, research, critiques and various commentaries undertaken by various groups in the interests of systemic changes that align with generative and diverse multiperspectival foundations.
Click on each letter in the word Manifesto to access papers in the collection.
Manifesto: global literacies and research diversity
The pursuit of a manifesto befits the various papers in the collection, not just the single article where the term is enlisted. It befits with the enlistment of the term global meaning maker rather than global reader to foreground our agency. As noted:
The term global meaning maker is enlisted in hopes of replacing passive, receptive, asocial, acultural, apolitical, restrictive, and repressive forms of reading with more active, collective, critical, cross-border, line stepping, interrogative, widely intertextual, and adaptive engagements.
Actionism: global meaning making
The hope is that the collection will prompt awareness and reflection while joining in calls for action and reform. As noted in the cornerstone article “Toward a model of global meaning making”, the collection involves a range of topics and issues akin to
Web-based platform with various overlapping, layered, and linked windows mangled rather than linear... The patchwork quilt explores readings of our worlds against the push and pull of internationalization versus Indigeneity, standardization versus ecological diversity. (p. 398)