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Expanding Literacies in Education


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The Expanding Literacies in Education Series features books that highlight the changing landscape and explore new directions and theoretical tools in literacy studies as it is transforming education—including material, embodied, affective, and global emphases; digital and virtual worlds; and transcultural and cosmopolitan spaces. Some books in the series locate emerging literacies in practices that extend or trouble their historical uses and functions. Others cross disciplinary borders, bringing new epistemologies to bear on evolving practices that question the very foundations of literacy scholarship. Polemical and forward-looking, encompassing public and vernacular pedagogies as well as formal education, these books engage researchers, graduate students, and teacher educators with new and emerging theoretical approaches to literacy practices in all of their complexities, challenges, and possibilities.

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Pluriversal Literacies for Sustainable Futures When Words Are Not Enough

Pluriversal Literacies for Sustainable Futures: When Words Are Not Enough

1st Edition

By Mia Perry
July 28, 2023

This book presents a new vision of literacy that frames meaning-making and communication in relation to individual, collective, and ecological needs. Building on the concept of the pluriversal, Perry explores how literacy education can support multiple ways of being and becoming. In so doing, Perry...

Literacy and Identity Through Streaming Media Kids, Teens, and Representation on Netflix

Literacy and Identity Through Streaming Media: Kids, Teens, and Representation on Netflix

1st Edition

By Damiana Gibbons Pyles
May 09, 2023

In this book, Damiana Gibbons Pyles guides readers through the fast-changing landscape of digital streaming services such as Netflix and explores their impact on children’s and teens’ identities. Children interact with streaming media in novel, hidden, and unforeseen ways that shape their digital, ...

Playful Methods Engaging the Unexpected in Literacy Research

Playful Methods: Engaging the Unexpected in Literacy Research

1st Edition

By Carmen Liliana Medina, Mia Perry, Karen Wohlwend
May 11, 2022

This book introduces three new subjects to the context of literacy research—play, the imaginary, and improvisation—and proposes how to incorporate these important concepts into the field as research methods in order to engage people, materials, spaces, and imaginaries that are inherent in every ...

Black Girls' Literacies Transforming Lives and Literacy Practices

Black Girls' Literacies: Transforming Lives and Literacy Practices

1st Edition

Edited By Detra Price-Dennis, Gholnecsar E. Muhammad
June 23, 2021

Bringing together the voices of leading and emerging scholars, this volume highlights the many facets of Black girls’ literacies. As a comprehensive survey of the research, theories, and practices that highlight the literacies of Black girls and women in diverse spaces, the text addresses how ...

Literacies that Move and Matter Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods

Literacies that Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods

1st Edition

By Karen Wohlwend
July 15, 2020

Expanding the definition and use of literacies beyond verbal and written communication, this book examines contemporary literacies through action-focused analysis of bodies, places, and media. Nexus analysis examines how people enact and mobilize meanings that are largely unspoken. Wohlwend ...

Affect in Literacy Learning and Teaching Pedagogies, Politics and Coming to Know

Affect in Literacy Learning and Teaching: Pedagogies, Politics and Coming to Know

1st Edition

Edited By Kevin Leander, Christian Ehret
February 14, 2019

In this cutting-edge volume, scholars from around the world connect affect theory to the field of literacy studies and unpack the role and influence of this emerging area of scholarship on literacy education. Offering an introduction to affect theory and scholarship as it relates to literacy ...

Posthumanism and Literacy Education Knowing/Becoming/Doing Literacies

Posthumanism and Literacy Education: Knowing/Becoming/Doing Literacies

1st Edition

Edited By Candace Kuby, Karen Spector, Jaye Johnson Thiel
July 16, 2018

Covering key terms and concepts in the emerging field of posthumanism and literacy education, this volume investigates posthumanism, not as a lofty theory, but as a materialized way of knowing/becoming/doing the world. The contributors explore the ways that posthumanism helps educators better ...

Exploring Critical Digital Literacy Practices Everyday Video in a Dual Language Context

Exploring Critical Digital Literacy Practices: Everyday Video in a Dual Language Context

1st Edition

By Jessica Zacher Pandya
July 16, 2018

In this book, Jessica Zacher Pandya examines the everyday videomaking practices of students in a dual language, under-resourced school in order to explore the ways children interrogate their worlds, the kinds of identities they craft, and the language and literacy learning practices that emerge ...

Community Literacies as Shared Resources for Transformation

Community Literacies as Shared Resources for Transformation

1st Edition

Edited By Joanne Larson, George H. Moses
December 05, 2017

Through multiple narratives reflecting the complexity of participatory action research partnerships for social justice, this book sheds light on the dialogic spaces that intentionally support community literacies and rhetorical practices for inquiry and change. Applying literacy as social practice,...

Reclaiming Powerful Literacies New Horizons for Critical Discourse Analysis

Reclaiming Powerful Literacies: New Horizons for Critical Discourse Analysis

1st Edition

By Rebecca Rogers
October 25, 2017

Offering a unique, reflexive framework for Critical Discourse Analysis focused on discourses of hope, transformation, and liberation, this book showcases a variety of powerful literacies in action. Drawing from original research in a range of public, educational spaces across the lifespan—from ...

Literacy Lives in Transcultural Times

Literacy Lives in Transcultural Times

1st Edition

Edited By Rahat Zaidi, Jennifer Rowsell
July 06, 2017

Combining language research with digital, multimodal, and critical literacy, this book uniquely positions issues of transcultural spaces and cosmopolitan identities across an array of contexts. Studies of everyday diasporic practices across places, spaces, and people’s stories provide authentic ...

Literacy and Mobility Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College

Literacy and Mobility: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College

1st Edition

By Brice Nordquist
May 03, 2017

Pushing forward research on emerging literacies and theoretical orientations, this book follows students from different tracks of high school English in a "failing" U.S. public school through their first two years in universities, colleges, and jobs. Analytical and methodological tools from new ...

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