Kate Pahl, Jennifer Rowsell

Living Literacies (eBook, ePUB)

Literacy for Social Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An approach to literacy that understands it as lived and experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and populations. This book approaches literacy as lived and experienced in the everyday. A living literacies approach draws not only on such official, schooled activities as reading, writing, speaking, and listening but also on such routine, tacit activities as scrolling through Instagram, watching news footage, and listening to music. It goes beyond well-worn framings of literacy as an object of study to reimagine literacy as constantly in motion, vital, and dynamic, filled with affective intensities. A lived literacies approach implies a turn to activism, to hopeful practice, and to creativity. The authors examine literacies through a series of active verbs: seeing, disrupting, hoping, knowing, creating, and making. Case studies--ranging from an exploration of photography as a way to shift perspectives to a project in which adults teach young people how to fish--show lived literacies in both theory and practice. With these chapters, Pahl and Rowsell, along with contributors Collier, Pool, Rasool, and Trzecak, make it possible to see literacy in everyday activities, woven into the modes of seeing and knowing. By disruption and activism, literacy can encompass a wide array of practices--exchanging information at a school gate or making a collage. Grounding theory in the sites and spaces of their research, working with artists, photographers, poets, and makers, the authors issue a call to action for literacy education.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262360739
• Artikelnr.: 58671734

Autorenporträt

Kate Pahl is Professor of Arts and Literacy in the Faculty of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation in the School of Education at the University of Bristol, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
FOREWORD xi Steve Pool
1 WHAT IS LIVING LITERACIES? 1 Jennifer Rowsell and Kate Pahl
2 SEEING: LIVING LITERACIES AS A PERCEIVED PRACTICE 25 Jennifer Rowsell and
Terry Trzecak
3 DISRUPTING: THE LITERACIES OF ACTIVISM 49 Kate Pahl and Zanib Rasool
4 HOPING: THE LITERACIES OF THE “NOT YET” 67 Kate Pahl and Steve Pool
5 KNOWING: THE LITERACIES OF DIGITAL AND NONDIGITAL SPACES 91 Diane Collier
and Jennifer Rowsell
6 CREATING: A LIVING LITERACIES APPROACH 117 Kate Pahl, Steve Pool, and
Zanib Rasool
7 MAKING: MATERIALIZING AFFECT THROUGH MAKER LITERACIES 137 Jennifer
Rowsell 
CONCLUSION: APPLYING A LIVING LITERACIES APPROACH 163 Jennifer Rowsell and
Kate Pahl
GLOSSARY 169
APPENDIX: FEATURED RESEARCH STUDIES 173
REFERENCES 181
INDEX 199