Overview
- Offers international perspectives on the notion of 'unsettling literacies' and literacies in precarious times
- Includes case studies to illustrate a variety of contexts purusing new lines of inquiry
- Presents research post-covid-19 that offers new insights and conceptual framing for researchers
Part of the book series: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education (CSTE, volume 15)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Part II
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Part III
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Keywords
- literacy research for change during uncertainty
- literacy research for change during disruptions
- literacies and activism
- researching activist literacy practices
- hopeful literacies in uncertain times
- complexity uncertainty and literacies
- methodological challenges for literacy researchers
- literacy research and uncertainty
- participatory methodologies for literacy research
- perplexities and literacies
- literacies for an uncertain future
- transnational literacies in precarious times
- directions in literacy research
- literacy research for post-covid-19 era
- challenges and opportunities for future literacy research
- issues in literacy research in 21st century
- literacies and the global south
- social justice and literacy
- theoretical perspectives for literacy research
- literacies as social action
About this book
This book asks researchers what uncertainty means for literacy research, and for how literacy plays through uncertain lives. While the book is not focused only on COVID-19, it is significant that it was written in 2020-2021, when our authors’ and readers’ working and personal lives were thrown into disarray by stay-at-home orders. The book opens up new spaces for examining ways that literacy has come to matter in the world.
Drawing on the reflections of international literacy researchers and important new voices, this book presents re-imagined methods and theoretical imperatives. These difficult times have surfaced new communicative practices and opened out spaces for exploration and activism, prompting re-examination of relationships between research, literacy and social justice.
The book considers varied and consequential events to explore new ways to think and research literacy and to unsettle what we know and accept as fundamental to literacy research, opening ourselves up for change. It provides direction to the field of literacy studies as pressing global concerns are prompting literacy researchers to re-examine what and how they research in times of precarity.
Reviews
"Unsettling Literacies is an inspiring collection that moves and shakes the field of literacy research to consider how to mobilize the tremendous uncertainty and precarity we are experiencing and to awaken understandings of new and more equitable practices of literacy. Lee, Bailey, Burnett and Rowsell have produced a powerful and much needed volume filled with innovative perspectives on literacy that demonstrate the resiliency with which people have moved with the changing times, charging us think more boldly about our path ahead as literacy researchers." –Professor Ernest Morrell, University of Notre Dame
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Claire Lee is an Early Career Research Fellow in the Children and Young People Network at Oxford Brookes University. Before completing her PhD in 2020, she was a primary school teacher and literacy subject leader. She is interested in children's learning lives and literacies, and how children develop a sense of self, as well as curriculum, power and classroom relationships. She conducts research that creates spaces for dialogue with children, using multimodal, participatory methods.
Chris Bailey is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Sheffield Hallam University. His work explores play; literacies; affective lived experience of space and place; sensory and embodied meaning-making; multimodal, participatory methods in research and communication. Chris is autistic and is interested in trying to work out what this means for how he understands and represents the world. He won the UK Literacy Association Student Research award in 2018 for the work that formed the basis of thisbook. He also received the UKLA / Wiley ‘Literacy’ Article of the Year Award in 2017.
Cathy Burnett is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Her research has focused predominantly on the relationship between new technologies and literacies within and beyond educational contexts from a sociomaterial perspective, with a recent interest in the relationship between research methods and practice.
Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation at University of Bristol’s School of Education in the United Kingdom.Her research interests include multimodal, makerspace and arts-based research with young people; digital literacies research with children; digital divide work in international contexts; and, applying posthumanist and affect theoretical and methodological approaches to literacy research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Unsettling Literacies
Book Subtitle: Directions for literacy research in precarious times
Editors: Claire Lee, Chris Bailey, Cathy Burnett, Jennifer Rowsell
Series Title: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6944-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6943-9Published: 05 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6946-0Published: 06 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6944-6Published: 04 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2345-7708
Series E-ISSN: 2345-7716
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 204
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literacy, Sociology of Education, Research Methods in Education