{"product_id":"living-literacies-isbn-9780262539715","title":"Living Literacies","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn approach to literacy that understands it as lived and experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and populations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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, the authors position literacy differently. They 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.\u003c\/p\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix \u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD xi Steve Pool \u003cbr\u003e1 WHAT IS LIVING LITERACIES? 1 Jennifer Rowsell and Kate Pahl \u003cbr\u003e2 SEEING: LIVING LITERACIES AS A PERCEIVED PRACTICE 25 Jennifer Rowsell and Terry Trzecak \u003cbr\u003e3 DISRUPTING: THE LITERACIES OF ACTIVISM 49 Kate Pahl and Zanib Rasool \u003cbr\u003e4 HOPING: THE LITERACIES OF THE “NOT YET” 67 Kate Pahl and Steve Pool \u003cbr\u003e5 KNOWING: THE LITERACIES OF DIGITAL AND NONDIGITAL SPACES 91 Diane Collier and Jennifer Rowsell \u003cbr\u003e6 CREATING: A LIVING LITERACIES APPROACH 117 Kate Pahl, Steve Pool, and Zanib Rasool \u003cbr\u003e7 MAKING: MATERIALIZING AFFECT THROUGH MAKER LITERACIES 137 Jennifer Rowsell \u003cbr\u003eCONCLUSION: APPLYING A LIVING LITERACIES APPROACH 163 Jennifer Rowsell and Kate Pahl\u003cbr\u003eGLOSSARY 169 \u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX: FEATURED RESEARCH STUDIES 173 \u003cbr\u003eREFERENCES 181 \u003cbr\u003eINDEX 199“\u003ci\u003eLiving Literacies\u003c\/i\u003e stretches readers to rethink how they conceptualize literacies and the potentials of literacies. The authors use active verbs to thread the chapters together—literacies as seeing, disrupting, hoping, knowing, creating, and making. This writerly move positions literacies not only as nouns but also verbs, active and alive in our daily relationships with and in the world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Candace R. Kuby, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum, University of Missouri; coauthor of \u003ci\u003eGo Be A Writer!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation in the School of Education at the University of Bristol, UK.An approach to literacy that understands it as lived and experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and populations.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300537946341,"sku":"NP9780262539715","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539715.jpg?v=1767731599","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/living-literacies-isbn-9780262539715","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}