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Critical media literacy (CML) is vital for students to navigate the current proliferation of misinformation and disinformation. Despite what is known about the influence of teacher beliefs on classroom practice, little research to date has looked at what teachers perceive about the importance of CML. The researchers administered a survey to teachers throughout the U.S. (N = 362) on their perceptions of the importance of teaching CML as part of their instruction. Using quantitative methods, the researchers found CML as the primary factor underlying the survey data and a strong awareness of the importance of teaching CML to students. While years of teaching experience, subject areas, being a primary, elementary, or middle school teacher, geographic area, and being politically conservative or progressive were not significant predictors of CML factor scores, three covariates showed significant differences—gender, educational level, and being a high school teacher. Implications for teacher education programs and professional learning initiatives and other suggestions for improvement are included in the discussion.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Methodological Matters and the Invisibility of Literacy / Pamela Takayoshi -- pt. I Literacies in Private Lives -- 2.Researching Social Media Literacies as Emergent Practice: Changes in Twitter Use after Year Two of a Longitudinal Case Study / Stacey Pigg -- 3.Building Social Worlds: Examining Women's Uses of Romance Novels / Stephanie Moody -- 4.Seniors' Uses of Literacy to Gain Bodily Control in Medical Encounters / Yvonne R. Teems -- 5.Digital African American Language: A Corpus Analysis of Text Messages / Jennifer M. Cunningham -- 6.Reconfiguring the "Patient" Identity: Transcontextual Writing Practices of a Person with Multiple Sclerosis / Patrick Thomas -- 7.Physically Present and Digitally Active: Locating Ecologies of Writing on Social Networks / Amber M. Buck -- pt. II Literacies in Public (Academic) Lives -- 8.Academic Consequences of Performing for Friends in English Language Arts Classrooms: The Significance of Culture and Language / Mollie Blackburn -- 9.Stepping Out with the Fop: Literacies of Embodiment and Becoming in Youth Drama / Treavor Bogard -- 10.English Language Literacy and the Prediction of Academic Success in and beyond the Pathway Program / Karyn E. Mallett -- 11.Emotionally Exhausting: Investigating the Role of Emotion in Teacher-Response Practices / Nicole I. Caswell -- pt. III Literacies in Working Lives -- 12.First Encounters in Professional Cyberspace: Writers' Exploration of LinkedIn / Elizabeth Tomlinson -- 13.Literacy Practices in Lunch Pails: Invisible Literacies of the Dabbawalas / Uma Krishnan -- 14.Enacting Professional Literate Practice: A Snapshot of One Graphic Designer's Process / Lindsay B. Steiner -- 15.Delivering the News: Literacy and Collaborative Response Practices at Midwest Utility / Jillian Hill -- 16.Distributed Labor, Writing, and an Automotive Repair Shop / Jeremy Cushman -- 17.Conclusion: Research on Literacy in Practice: Domains, Maps, and Emerging Challenges / Patricia Sullivan.

Vaccines are among the most important public health achievements of the last century; however, vaccine awareness and uptake still face significant challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this phenomenon. Vaccine Literacy (VL) is the ability to find, understand and judge immunisation-related information to make appropriate immunisation decisions. A cross-sectional study on a sample of 3500 participants, representative of the Italian adult population aged 18+ years, was conducted in Italy in 2021. A validated questionnaire, including sections on health literacy (HL), sociodemographic characteristics, risk factors, and lifestyles of respondents, was used. VL was measured by four items (item 19, 22, 26 and 29) of the HL section. While 67.6% of the respondents had a "good" (47.5%) or "sufficient" (20.1%) level of VL, 32.4% had "limited" VL levels. Although the overall VL level was quite high, many participants reported difficulties in dealing with vaccination information, particularly those with a lower educational level, those living in southern and insular regions of Italy, those with greater financial deprivation and those with a migration background. Improving VL in Italy should be a top priority in the political agenda, with special regard to socially and geographically disadvantaged communities.