Opening Space for All the Words: Exploring the Writingworld in Multiple Contexts (Table 17)

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 11:25 am

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium explores how literacy practices are often controlled by dominant racial and linguistic groups through the Writingworld theoretical framework. We introduce the theory and illustrate the relationships with power, writing, agency, and social change with three empirical projects with diverse groups in Canada and a fourth project with exiled language rights activists from Iran.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Amir Kalan, McGill University

Participant

• Karen M E Andrews, Concordia University

Papers

• The Writingworld and the Regulation of Minoritized Writers’ Literacy Practices - Amir Kalan, McGill University

• A Translanguaging Project in Ontario With Youth From Refugee Backgrounds - Karen M E Andrews, Concordia University