35.040 - Literacies Across Local, Global, and Translocal Imaginaries: Ethnographies of Becoming Transnational

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

We present ethnographic work conducted in communities, schools, homes and classrooms in multiple locations--Puerto Rico, Ohio, Minnesota, and Georgia--with adults and children whose lives are being transformed by transnational literacies and shifting politics of literacy education. Working with (and against) a range of ethnographic approaches we ask how transnational literacies emerge in ways that are unpredictable, creative, and political and always constitutive of and constituted by people’s agentic and identity work in situated contexts. Presenters address the impact of global media markets on children’s literacy repertoires, storytelling among immigrant and non-immigrant youth, parents’ responses to activism themes in children’s literature, and perceptions of schooling among adults and youth whose lives are defined by transnational mobility.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 3: Social Context of Multiple Languages and Literacies

Chair

• Carmen L. Medina, Indiana University - Bloomington

Papers

• Transnational Imagination and Oral Storytelling Among Global Peers - Patricia E. Enciso, The Ohio State University

• Language and School Support in the Educational Experiences of Puerto Rican Transnational Youth - Sandra L Soto-Santiago, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

• Translocal and Colonial Landscapes: Mapping the Relocalization of Telenovelas - Carmen L. Medina, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Transnational Flows in Immigrant and Indigenous Rights: Parents' Responses to the Activism in Children's Literature - Silvia C Nogueron-Liu, University of Colorado - Boulder; Marianne Snow, University of Georgia

Discussant

• Luis C. Moll, The University of Arizona