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Program Lead: Professor Laura Scholes
National School of Education
The Gender and Literacy in the Digital Age program examines how education systems can strengthen young people’s reading engagement, critical thinking, and meaning making in increasingly digital environments. It focuses on how classroom pedagogies, curriculum design, and institutional assumptions about reading shape students’ literacy experiences across print, digital, and emerging text forms. Specific attention is given to boyhood and masculinity—and how inequities in reading engagement can be reinforced or disrupted through schooling practices. Using innovative approaches, including large scale surveys, youth participatory methods and digital analytics, the program generates robust evidence to transform classroom pedagogy, strengthen teacher education and inform education policy to design future focused literacy approaches that improve educational outcomes.