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Kylie Peppler
UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Education
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Research Interests
Dr. Peppler's research focuses on the intersection of arts
education, media, literacy, and new technologies. Current research
projects center on the media arts practices of urban and
(dis)abled youth in order to better understand and support
literacy and learning in the 21st Century. Her recent work
resulted in the creation of a new conceptual framework for
describing and analyzing youths' media arts practices, as well as
several new methodologies for documenting discipline-specific
learning in informal and arts-based settings. Dr. Peppler was also
a recipient of the Spencer Dissertation Fellowship as well as a UC
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship for her work in these areas.
Research Projects
Educators and researchers in the field of literacy are expanding on traditional notions of literacy to include decoding, evaluating, and producing electronic media. Yet many youth enrolled in special education courses are seen as lacking the skills and competencies for creative production in new media because they may not possess the ability to read and write in a traditional sense. However, early pilot research has revealed that such marginalized and preliterate youth are avid consumers and producers of media arts texts. Working along with Mark Warschauer, this study will take a closer look at this phenomenon to document, describe, and analyze the media arts practices of youth with (dis)abilities within the context of schools participating in the one-to-one laptop initiative, contrasting their abilities with the common (mis)perceptions of these youth as being preliterate or even illiterate within today's educational system.
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