Full Description
How do ideas change practices and people? In this volume, 32 influential voices in literacy education get personal about how they have worked on ideas and how those ideas have worked on them. Together, the essays offer never-before revealed personal histories of the authors' published writing about ideas that have shaped the field of literacy education. They also offer a rare glimpse into the complex ways histories of research emerge alongside personal and political influences on policy and practice. Ideas that Changed Literacy Practices is a unique and valuable resource for researchers and educators, whether in K-12 or higher education settings. Together the essays situate the complexities of literacy learning and teaching in a rich context of personal and professional knowledge that highlights the vibrant complexities of the field of literacy education.
Contents
Chapter 1
Challenging the "I" That We Are
Dennis Sumara and Donna E. Alvermann
Chapter 2
Reading and Learning: An Intricate and Inseparable Bond
Patricia A. Alexander
Chapter 3
Entanglements: Searching for Historical Authenticity
Donna E. Alvermann
Chapter 4
Empowerment and Values in School Change
Kathryn H. Au
Chapter 5
Listening Across Differences
Maren Aukerman
Chapter 6
Literacy, English, and Video Games: Challenges and Continuities Through Change
Catherine Beavis
Chapter 7
When You Goin' Teach Us How to Make That Money?
George Boggs
Chapter 8
The Everydayness of Religious Literacies
Kevin Burke
Chapter 9
Nurturing Communities of Inquiry Across Difference: Decolonial Social Formations in Literacy Research and Practice
Gerald Campano
Chapter 10
On the Failure of Reason in the Face of Belief
Mark Dressman
Chapter 11
"Where Are You?": Reading, Repositioning, and Imagining for Antiracist Futures
Patricia Enciso
Chapter 12
Socially Embodied Experience: An Explanatory Model for Literacy Based on Strangeness
James Paul Gee
Chapter 13
Performed Ethnography
Tara Goldstein
Chapter 14
Rich Points on a Reflexive Journey to Understanding Language-Literacy Relationships
Judith Green
Chapter 15
Rhizomatic Cartography of a Literate Life
Margaret Carmody Hagood
Chapter 16
Land, Language, and Learning: Living in Good Relations
Jan Hare
Chapter 17
Transmediation: Nurturing Imagination Through Abduction
Jerome C. Harste
Chapter 18Hybrid Spaces, Design, and Imagination in the Practice of Transformative Literacy Teacher Preparation: A Personal Journey
James Hoffman
Chapter 19Naturalizing Literacy: Finding Meaning in the Biology of Language, Thought, and Being
George G. Hruby
Chapter 20
Refusing and Accepting the Hail: Interpellation as a Personally Liberating Concept
Hilary Janks
Chapter 21
Memes and Meme-ing: Research and Meaning
Michele Knobel
Chapter 22
Virtual Shifts: Rethinking Literacies in Home and School
Linda Laidlaw
Chapter 23
Memes and Meme-ing: Rethinking Internet Memes for a Better Future
Colin Lankshear
Chapter 24
Agency and Assemblage in Children's Literacies
Kim Lenters
Chapter 25
Heteroglossia, Emotion, and the Transformation of Signs
Cynthia Lewis
Chapter 26
The Lyric of Witnessing and the Insight of Resonance
Rebecca Luce-Kapler
Chapter 27
Cultural Modeling on My Mind: Reframing Racialized Literacy Practices, and Reimagining Human Learning
Ramón Antonio Martínez
Chapter 28
Making Meaning, Making Sense
Guy Merchant
Chapter 29
Wahkohtowin: Reading, Writing, and Kinship
Lorri Neilsen Glenn
Chapter 30
Enacting Critical Race Parenting Through/With a Family Literacies Archive
Rebecca Rogers
Chapter 31
An Intellectual Path Paved With Emotions and Shaped by Cultures
Peter Smagorinsky
Chapter 32
Restorying My Archive of Deferrals
Dennis Sumara
Chapter 33
Going Public: Literacy Practices that Changed My Ideas
John Willinsky
Author Biographies
Index
