%0 Journal Article %T Toward a Model of Global Meaning Making %A Robert J. Tierney %J Journal of Literacy Research %@ 1554-8430 %D 2018 %R 10.1177/1086296X18803134 %X Drawing upon tenets of critical theory, cultural capital, global epistemologies, decolonization, Indigenous ways of knowing, mobility and translanguaging, ethics, and global citizenship, this article proposes a model of cross-cultural meaning making and worldly reading as a foundation for global epistemological eclecticism in our research and pedagogical pursuits. The imaginary represents an aspirational model in the interest of decolonizing and supporting ¡°other¡±¡ªnotably confronting western exclusivity and racism and mobilizing epistemologies of southern scholars and Indigenous communities %K Global epistemologies %K critical perspectives %K post-colonial perspectives %K indigeneity %K cross-cultural %K cross-linguistic %K ethics in research %K global education/globalization %K post-truth %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1086296X18803134