Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning

Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning addresses two paradoxical currents that are sweeping through the contemporary educational field. The first is the opening up of possibilities for multimodal communication as a result of developments in digital technologies and the sensitivity to multiliteracies. The second is the increasing pressure from standardised testing, accountability and performance measurement which pull curricular and pedagogical practices out of alignment with the everyday informal practices and interests of teachers and learners and narrow opportunities for diverse expressions of literacy.

Bringing together an international team of scholars to examine the tensions and struggles that result from the current educational climate, the book provides a much-needed discussion of the intersection of technologies of literacies, education and self. It does so through diverse approaches, including philosophical, theoretical and methodological treatments of multimodality and governmentality, and a range of literacies - early years, primary school, workplace, digital, middle school, secondary school, indigenous, adult and place. With examples taken from all stages of education and in several countries, the book allows readers to explore a range of multimodal practices and the ways in which governmentality plays out across them.

Mary Hamilton is Professor of Adult Learning and Literacy in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, UK. Her most recent book is Literacy and the Politics of Representation (2012).

Rachel Heydon is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the Western University, Canada. Her most recent book is Learning at the Ends of Life (2013).

Kathy Hibbert is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Acting Associate Director of the Centre for Research Education and Innovation, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at the Western University, Canada.

Roz Stooke is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the Western University, Canada, where she teaches courses in Curriculum Studies and Literacy and Children's Literature.

Foreword, Bill Cope (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Mary Kalantzis (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Introduction, Mary Hamilton (Lancaster University, UK), Rachel Heydon (Western University, Canada), Kathy Hibbert (Western University, Canada) and Roz Stooke (Western University, Canada)
1. Moving from Governmentality to Agency in Multimodal Literacy Assessment, Sharon Murphy (York University, Canada)
2. Re-Centering The Role Of Care In Young People's Multimodal Literacies: A Collaborative Seeing Approach, Wendy Luttrell (CUNY, USA) and Claire Fontaine (CUNY, USA)
3. Multimodality and Governmentality in Kindergarten Literacy Curricula, Rachel Heydon (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
4.Regulatory Gaze and 'Non-sense' Phonics Testing in Early Literacy, Rosie Flewitt (University of London, UK) and Guy Roberts-Holmes (University of London, UK)
5. Critical and Multimodal Literacy Curricula, Peggy Albers (Georgia State University, USA), Jerome C. Harste (Indiana University, USA) and Vivian M. Vasquez (American University, USA)
6. Governing through Implicit and Explicit Assessment Acts: Multimodality in Mathematics Classrooms, Lisa Björklund Boistrup (Stockholm University, Sweden)
7.The Secret of 'Will' in New Times: Assessment Affordances of a Cloud Curriculum, Kathy Hibbert (Western University, Canada)
8. Myth Making and Meaning Making: The School and Indigenous Children, David Rose (University of Sydney, Australia)
9. Digital Literacies and Higher Education, Richard Andrews (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
10. The Pecket Way: Negotiating Multimodal Learning Spaces in a User-run Community Education Project, Mary Hamilton (Lancaster University, UK)
11. Learning Stories: Situated Assessment Practices in a Data-driven Education System, Roz Stooke (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
12. Beyond Essential Ekills: Creating Spaces for Multimodal Text Production within Canada's 'Minimal Proficiency' Policy Regime, Suzanne Smythe (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Afterword, Mary Hamilton (Lancaster University, UK), Rachel Heydon (Western University, Canada), Kathy Hibbert (Western University, Canada) and Roz Stooke (Western University, Canada)
Bibliography
Index

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Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning Multimodality and Governmentality

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