LiteracyPub Date : 2022-01-19DOI: 10.1111/lit.12265
Jenny Byman, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Chin-Chin Wong, Jenny Renlund
{"title":"Children's emotional experiences in and about nature across temporal–spatial entanglements during digital storying","authors":"Jenny Byman, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Chin-Chin Wong, Jenny Renlund","doi":"10.1111/lit.12265","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12265","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we investigate how digital storying creates opportunities for children to attend to their emotional experiences in and about nature. Following relational ontology and socio-cultural theorising, we focus our analysis on the temporal–spatial entanglements of children's emotional experiences. Our inquiry draws on a case study of two children at a Finnish primary school. Liam and Vera engaged in digital storying in their local forest using an augmented storycrafting app, MyAR Julle. The data were collected during two storying workshops by means of observational field notes, video recordings, interviews with the children and digital artefacts. The results illustrate how engaging in the narrative plot of a fictitious augmented character invited the children to create necessary open-endedness in the activity which further stimulated their storying. The children's experiences were imbued with emotions and distributed across human and non-human actors. The children's digital storying not only communicated their personal emotional experiences in local surroundings, but was also grounded in broader societal narratives, such as climate change and forest conservation, with considerations of the future of the planet. The results suggest how digital storying offers a pedagogical method for early environmental education that builds on children's emotional experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"56 1","pages":"18-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12265","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42075204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2022-01-19DOI: 10.1111/lit.12269
Helen Hanna
{"title":"Recognising silence and absence as part of multivocal storytelling in and through picturebooks: migrant learners in South Africa engaging with The Arrival","authors":"Helen Hanna","doi":"10.1111/lit.12269","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12269","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents research with migrant primary school learners in South Africa using the wordless picturebook <i>The Arrival</i> (by Shaun Tan) as a research tool. Bringing together the disciplines of literacies and childhood studies, it considers representation, storytelling, absence and silence as part of children's ‘voice’ in order to shed light on communication during fieldwork with Black migrant learners in South Africa. It examines both the absences and/or silences in <i>The Arrival</i> itself and instances where silence was used by participants, potentially as a way of avoiding topics such as children's ‘voice’ and ‘race’. It offers possible explanations for such silence and absence, including that such topics were banal to the learners, too sensitive or controversial and made them feel uncomfortable discussing with a White researcher in a school where the majority of teachers were White, or that the characters were not representative of their racial identities. Ultimately, I argue that the concepts of silence and absence should be considered more carefully when using literature as a tool in research and teaching, as a step towards enabling children to engage with storytelling in a way that is more reflective of their own multivocal stories.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"56 1","pages":"40-49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12269","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48462427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Untangling the complexity of designing tools to support tangible and digital intercultural story telling in troubled times: a case in point","authors":"Cristina Sylla, Maitê Gil, Íris Susana Pires Pereira","doi":"10.1111/lit.12263","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12263","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we present a descriptive case study of the Mobeybou materials, a kit of tangible and digital tools aimed at offering young children opportunities to read, create and share intercultural stories. The tools comprise a set of story apps that present interactive, multimodal and intercultural stories for children to make meanings with, a digital manipulative (DM) and a storyMaker (a digital replication of the DM) that offer the possibility for embodied, collaborative and creative construction of stories by the children themselves. After presenting the materials, we describe how they evolved as an interface of convergence of several complementary theories. By doing this, our major intention is to contribute to the understanding that the design of tools and technologies aimed at creating meaningful and inclusive opportunities for digital story telling in troubled times is a complex, demanding endeavour, but can also be a powerful tool to address the complexities of the troubled times we are living in.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"56 1","pages":"3-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12263","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46039889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2022-01-19DOI: 10.1111/lit.12270
Jen Scott Curwood, Katelyn Jones
{"title":"A bridge across our fears: understanding spoken word poetry in troubled times","authors":"Jen Scott Curwood, Katelyn Jones","doi":"10.1111/lit.12270","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12270","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Spoken word poetry encourages youth to engage in identity construction, resist oppression and construct counternarratives. Through participating in community-based slams, school workshops and online events, young people can take part in visible activism through exploring their own identity, power and agency and seeing themselves as change agents. In this article, we share longitudinal case studies of two youth poets based in Sydney, Australia. As young women of colour coming of age in troubled times, we consider how poetry offers them a way to engage in story telling and to create counternarratives. We also explore how spoken word allows them to explore their cultural identities, offer testimony about their lived experiences and participate in activism. We situate our research within the COVID-19 pandemic and critically reflect on how the shift online has offered new opportunities whilst also presenting unexpected challenges for youth poets.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"56 1","pages":"50-58"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12270","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47491520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2022-01-19DOI: 10.1111/lit.12271
Angela Colvert
{"title":"Dreams of time and space: exploring digital literacies through playful transmedia storying in school","authors":"Angela Colvert","doi":"10.1111/lit.12271","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12271","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To support digital literacies in schools, fundamental reorientation and rethinking is required to develop ‘appropriate’ pedagogical practices which are aligned with (and extend) the current curriculum. To achieve this, new flexible frameworks and tools are needed to support educators to work creatively and productively within the current constraints and challenge dominant discourses. Addressing this necessity, I present the findings from a 2-year research project, funded by the British Academy, entitled <i>Playful Pedagogies: Developing New Literacies in the Classroom through the Design and Play of Alternate Reality Games</i> which set out to investigate how engaging teachers in the co-design of an alternate reality game might develop their understanding of digital literacies (their own and those of the children in their classes). The game, ‘Join the DOTS (Dreams of Time and Space)’, provides a fictional context and pedagogical framework for exploring the potential of ‘transmedia storying’ in schools. The associated planning tool and observation frame support teachers to reflect on the skills, critical questions and cultural connections shaped during play and foreground the value of noticing literacy processes as they emerge ‘in the moment’. These have significant implications educators and policy makers and those developing transmedia narratives with and for young people.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"56 1","pages":"59-72"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12271","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63397834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1111/lit.12281
Matthew Courtney
{"title":"Children Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Age: Mapping Reader Engagement, by Natalia Kucirkova and Teresa Cremin, 2020. SAGE Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-5264-3663-4, 185 pages, £26.99 (paperback)","authors":"Matthew Courtney","doi":"10.1111/lit.12281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"56 4","pages":"400-401"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137482762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1111/lit.12280
Laura Ovenden
{"title":"The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, 2020. New York University Press. ISBN: 9781479806072, 240 pages, £12.99 (paperback)","authors":"Laura Ovenden","doi":"10.1111/lit.12280","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"56 2","pages":"184-185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43575590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1111/lit.12267
K. Facer, B. Parry, Lucy Taylor, J. Bradley, S. Little
{"title":"Embracing the unpredictable effect of one person: an interview with Professor Keri Facer","authors":"K. Facer, B. Parry, Lucy Taylor, J. Bradley, S. Little","doi":"10.1111/lit.12267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12267","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63397770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1111/lit.12272
Lisa Stephenson, A. Daniel, Vicky Storey
{"title":"Weaving critical hope: story making with artists and children through troubled times","authors":"Lisa Stephenson, A. Daniel, Vicky Storey","doi":"10.1111/lit.12272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12272","url":null,"abstract":"Re‐imagining Home was a collective immersive story response for children ages 7–12 years during Covid curated by artists from The Story Makers Company. This experience focused on connecting children in new ways through the processes of drama and storying. This paper explores the nuanced responses that children and artists negotiated online/offline story spaces as they lived through these experiences. ARTography (Irwin, 2013) is used as a form of practitioner inquiry from three of the eight artists perspectives, to critically examine the tensions of embedding our affective offline practices online. This includes exploring the rhizomatic ways in which children engaged both online/offline through the artefacts that they shared. The ways in which these hybrid story spaces reflected our affective experiences are explored as the ‘richness of the meanwhile’ (Bogost in Facer 2019, p. 7), described as ‘the dense network of activity going on at any one time’. These shared ‘fragmentary’ stories are explored as a critical pedagogy of hope, considering how the Story Weave offered new possibilities for reimagining future educator practices in troubled times.","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45138753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1111/lit.12279
Nur Yigitoglu Aptoula
{"title":"Exploring academic literacy practices of graduate students in English language teacher education programmes at English-medium universities in Turkey","authors":"Nur Yigitoglu Aptoula","doi":"10.1111/lit.12279","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12279","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While previous research has documented the challenges international students face during their graduate level study in U.S. universities (Casanave and Li, 2008), less is known about the graduate students at English-medium universities, which are common in non-English dominant (EFL) contexts. To address this gap in the literature, this exploratory research study investigates second language (L2) graduate students' academic literacy practices at English-medium universities in Turkey. During one academic year, Turkish graduate students in English language education programmes at seven English-medium universities were invited to participate in a survey regarding their academic literacy practices in English and Turkish. One hundred ten participants responded on the survey. In addition, a subset of participants was asked to participate in semi-structured interviews. Graduate students stated that studying through the medium of English made it almost impossible to write in their L1 (i.e. Turkish). They, however, were asked to make parallel use of English and Turkish in some genres such as academic papers and conference abstracts. Based on the results, the study highlights the importance promoting academic biliteracy along with full-bilingualism at graduate programmes in English-medium universities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"56 2","pages":"174-183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46940993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}