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Analyzing High School Students’ Mulitmodal Compositions with Digital Media Platforms Using Metafunctions
No full textThis study explores how diverse high school English students designed open-ended, multimodal projects across digital platforms (Weebly, blogs, and Instagram). Framed by metafunctions, emergent and axial coding of each student’s website homepage shows a broad range of how they designed in digital spaces and to what rhetorical effects. Additional coding of two focal students’ designs across each of the digital platforms highlights how students created complex, multimodal compositions that would have otherwise not been possible with the typical more formal, rigid forms of discourse. By designing multimodally, students showcased interests, humor, emotions, and culture not often seen in this classroo
“What’s the Use?”: Undoing, Decolonizing, Liberating, and Righting Literacies Assessment in Turbulent Times
No full textIn this conceptual paper, we draw upon Ahmed (2019) and ask “what’s the use of assessment?” The Reimagining Literacies Assessment knowledge mobilization project contributes examples from research and pedagogy in classrooms with young children, in a Cree language immersion program, in anti-racist creative writing classrooms, and in research in reading instruction and assessment. Undoing, decolonizing, liberating, righting become concepts to think through the use of assessment and to propose critically urgent and emergent questions, practices, and possibilities for students and teachers
Translanguaging and teacher authority
No full textThe purpose of the paper is to understand the connection between teacher authority and children’s language use. The data presented here was pulled from two large data sources: a set of case-studies in Grades 4 to 6 classrooms with multilingual children who were new to Canada and learning to read and write for the first time and qualitative research in a teacher education program preparing teacher candidates to educate multilingual students. Findings suggest that children translanguage in liminal spaces outside of the teachers’ authority and that multilingual students that were asked to translanguage in English authority classrooms had negative experiences
Teaching poetry using Instagram: An international, interdisciplinary study with adolescents mobilizing literacy and the arts
No full textYoung people engage daily with various social media platforms to communicate with each other across the globe. Adolescents not only share text, but also use images and sound to express themselves on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok to provide access to user-created content. The recent emergence of InstaPoetry—poetry with images on Instagram—has been part of such communication and provides a good entry point into adolescents’ engagement with literature and the arts. Limited research exists, however, on how this literate practice, paired with virtual and in-person museum visits, influences young people’s self-expression. In this article, we offer ways of integrating and involving these dynamic dimensions into research projects based on four sites of inquiry located in Canada and Australia. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, this research project provides concrete avenues to investigate teachers’ methods to foster adolescents’ engagement with literature and the arts (i.e., contextual design, procedures, environment) in (post) COVID-19 times.Young people engage daily with various social media platforms to communicate with each other across the globe. Adolescents not only share text, but also use images and sound to express themselves on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok to provide access to user-created content. The recent emergence of InstaPoetry—poetry with images on Instagram—has been part of such communication and provides a good entry point into adolescents’ engagement with literature and the arts. Limited research exists, however, on how this literate practice, paired with virtual and in-person museum visits, influences young people’s self-expression. In this article, we offer ways of integrating and involving these dynamic dimensions into research projects based on four sites of inquiry located in Canada and Australia. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, this research project provides concrete avenues to investigate teachers’ methods to foster adolescents’ engagement with literature and the arts (i.e., contextual design, procedures, environment) in (post) COVID-19 times.
Implantation d’Un Programme d’ Éveil À La Lecture Et À l’écriture Dans Les Services De Garde En Milieu Scolaire : Vocabulaire, Compréhension Orale, Processus Inférentiels Et Engagement Face Aux Livres
No full textLe présent article traite de l’éveil à la lecture et à l’écriture (ÉLÉ) dans un contexte de service de garde en milieu scolaire. Cette recherche-intervention consiste à présenter les effets d’un programme d’ÉLÉ sur le vocabulaire, la compréhension orale, l’engagement envers la lecture et les processus inférentiels en comparant un groupe d’enfants de quatre ans exposés au programme (n = 52) à celui d’enfants n’y ayant pas été exposés (n = 26). Bien que le programme n’ait pas montré d’effets significatifs sur le développement des habiletés de compréhension orale, de vocabulaire, de processus inférentiels et d’engagement envers la lecture, l’étude soulève sa pertinence au regard du développement global de l’enfant
Boxed In and-and Busting Out: Playing in the Borderlands of Literacy Education
No full textWorking with a group of Alberta Grade 1 and 2 teachers we have observed and heard described several of the complexities they face in practicing well amidst multiple and competing dimensions of contemporary literacy instruction. The outcomes-driven machinery of their provincial context, their school district’s system for communicating classroom assessments, and the increasing dominance of synthetic phonics are factors the teachers note as constraining their knowledge, skills, and ways of being/doing, and that of their students. When these material expectations are positioned against other commitments to literacy education and diverse ways of being/becoming literate they both intend a certain future and serve as reminders of literacy education’s philosophical and practical “trouble without end” (Tsing, 2015, p. 2).
Conceptualizing instructional contexts and practices as research assemblages, the study in which this paper is based investigates how early elementary teachers work at, with, and within the current conditionings of school-based literacy practices. Drawing on teacher interviews, photographs from within literacy teaching and learning situations (Snaza, 2019), and extended observations with a Grade 1 French Immersion teacher and class, the purpose of this paper is to explore liveable possibilities in reading, writing, and language instruction for the “right now” of literacy education (Kuby et al., 2019). Focusing on examples in which teachers seek “and…and…and…” pedagogies (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, p. 25) our purpose is not to settle the troubled waters of literacy education but to trace contours of possibility as teachers encounter literacy education’s boxes and boundaries and exceed their confines. We follow teachers’ material and social participation in curricular attentions to affect and cultivations of newness as a practice of care for and curiosity about a shared world in early elementary literacy instruction
Supporting preservice teachers to navigate the tensions of teaching English Language Arts: An examination of two teacher educator\u27s literacies pedagogies
No full textThis paper shares findings from a Self-Study of Teacher Education practice (S-STEP) where we leveraged our long-standing relationship as critical friends to examine our teacher education pedagogies in our elementary English Language Arts courses in 2022-2023. Guided by posthuman perspectives, we consider the relational movements that produced our pedagogies during a currently contentious field mapped by polarizing views in reports, social media, and teacher professional texts. We name movements our literacies pedagogies with/in these challenging times highlighting instances where the context shaped our pedagogies and where our pedagogies moved against the context. This paper offers an invitation to other educators to consider ways that we can create a culture that honours expansive understandings of literacies and creates spaces for curriculum-making and pedagogical inventiveness
« Quelle est votre vision de la poésie? » : conceptions croisées de poètes québécois contemporains et d’enseignants du secondaire
No full textLes auteurs de cet article visent à comprendre comment les conceptions de pratiques sociales de référence peuvent contribuer à reconfigurer un objet d’enseignement. Dans le cas présent, ils s’intéressent à l’objet « poésie ». Une analyse de contenu du discours de 32 poètes québécois contemporains confronté à celui de 20 enseignants du secondaire a été réalisée de façon à cerner les complémentarités et les distinctions dans leurs conceptions. Quelques aspects communs ont été identifiés à première vue : la poésie est associée à un travail sur la langue, à l’expression de soi, à des visions du monde représenté et à des dimensions de l’expérience esthétique. Toutefois, les justifications que donnent les uns et les autres pour décrire ces aspects diffèrent à plusieurs égards. Les résultats ouvrent la voie à une reconfiguration de la poésie en tant qu’objet d’enseignement. Ainsi, une transposition didactique de savoirs permettant de développer un rapport plus expérientiel et créatif à la poésie comme le défendent les poètes s’ajouterait à la dimension cognitive qui domine dans les conceptions des enseignants
\u27Not Reading Just Seems Crazy to Me\u27: Religious Youths’ Textual Ideologies of Sacred Texts
No full textThis study examines six Latter-day Saint youths’ textual ideologies of sacred texts. Inductive analyses point to three shared textual ideologies related to youths’ expectations about (a) the educative nature of sacred texts, (b) the relevance sacred texts had in their lives, and (c) the amount of time they should spend reading them. Findings support and extend existing language and literacy research by providing insights into the social and cultural forces that shape how religious youth engage with and use sacred texts. Implications of this work offer paths for future literacy research and practice.  
