Reclaiming Literacies as Meaning Making: Manifestations of Values, Identities, Relationships, and Knowledge [Pehme köide]

"In this edited volume, Whitmore and Meyer bring together top literacy scholars from around the world to discuss the role of literacy as a manifestation of meaning-making in reading, writing, drawing, speaking, and playing. Emerging from a rich, progressive scholarship, the volume lays out a clear discourse of meaning-making in literacies, and shifts the conversation away from treating literacies as commodities and towards an understanding of literacies as an active, engaged process by which learners compose and develop their own expressions of agency. Organized by five pillars of literacy-teaching, learning, language, curriculum, and sociocultural contexts-each section covers critical and cutting-edge topics in literacy and offers examples, tools and strategies for practical applications in classroom settings"--

Whitmore and Meyer bring together top literacy scholars from around the world to introduce the concept of manifestations: evidence of meaning making in literacy events, practices, processes, products, and thinking. Manifestation are windows into literacy identities, and serve as affective and sociocultural signifiers of learners’ understanding at a point in time and in a specific context. The volume reclaims progressive spaces for understanding reading, writing, drawing, speaking, playing, and other literacies. It grounds manifestations of literacies in the discourse of meaning making and demonstrates how literacy learners and educators are active agents in this complex, social, political, emotional, and multimodal process.

Ideal for preservice teachers, graduate students, and researchers in literacy education, this book shifts the conversation away from treating literacies as acquired commodities and illustrates how educators engage with learners to deepen understanding of literacy learners’ experiences. Organized by five pillars of literacy—teaching, learning, language, curriculum, and sociocultural contexts—each section covers critical and cutting-edge topics and offers examples, tools, and strategies for research and practical applications in diverse classroom settings. Each chapter includes a range of examples and is followed by a short, complementary reading extension to engage the reader.