Living Literacies
Literacy for Social Change
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2020
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539715 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262539713 |
| Author: | Kate Pahl, Jennifer Rowsell |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Living Literacies 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.”
—Candace R. Kuby, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum, University of Missouri; coauthor of Go Be A Writer!
About The Author
Kate Pahl
Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation in the School of Education at the University of Bristol, UK.
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