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An approach to literacy that understands it as lived and experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and populations.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
FOREWORD xi Steve Pool
1 WHAT IS LIVING LITERACIES? 1 Jennifer Rowsell and Kate Pahl
2 SEEING: LIVING LITERACIES AS A PERCEIVED PRACTICE 25 Jennifer Rowsell and Terry Trzecak
3 DISRUPTING: THE LITERACIES OF ACTIVISM 49 Kate Pahl and Zanib Rasool
4 HOPING: THE LITERACIES OF THE “NOT YET” 67 Kate Pahl and Steve Pool
5 KNOWING: THE LITERACIES OF DIGITAL AND NONDIGITAL SPACES 91 Diane Collier and Jennifer Rowsell
6 CREATING: A LIVING LITERACIES APPROACH 117 Kate Pahl, Steve Pool, and Zanib Rasool
7 MAKING: MATERIALIZING AFFECT THROUGH MAKER LITERACIES 137 Jennifer Rowsell 
CONCLUSION: APPLYING A LIVING LITERACIES APPROACH 163 Jennifer Rowsell and Kate Pahl
GLOSSARY 169
APPENDIX: FEATURED RESEARCH STUDIES 173
REFERENCES 181
INDEX 199

About the Author

Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation in the School of Education at the University of Bristol, UK.

Reviews

“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!