Abstract
It is tempting and even useful to imagine stable camps in a warlike contest over common interests in school reform, and it is an ingrained national tradition to portray meaningful struggle between camps, with Jimmy Stewart or Sidney Poitier playing the good guy in the movie version. Web 2.0 activism, a type of critical literacy, challenges that view as teachers and parents, long positioned in the backseat in national education reform, are increasingly able to drive, organize, and disagree with self-selected protagonists of positive change. In this chapter, we examine the connections among Critical Digital Literacies (CDL) and the struggle over what is “common” among stakeholders in American education.
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Boggs, G.L., Stewart, T.T. (2014). Critical Digital Literacies and the Struggle over What’s Common. In: Heron-Hruby, A., Landon-Hays, M. (eds) Digital Networking for School Reform: The Online Grassroots Efforts of Parent and Teacher Activists. Digital Education and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137430748_1
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