Literacy as Matter in Motion: Composing with Bodies, Actions, Time, and Space

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Each paper in this symposium investigates embodied, material, and temporal aspects of composing in a preschool or elementary classroom. Working from embodied interaction and posthumanist views of materialism, these studies explore and critically examine the potentials of research approaches that examine embodied and material practices as essential, agentic intra-actants in continually unfolding processes of composing and meaning-making.

Content Area

• Area 5: Early and Elementary Literacy Processes

Chair

• Teresa Cremin, Open University England

Discussant

• Teresa Cremin, Open University England

Individual Presentations

• How Embodied, Spatial, and Material Resources Support Learning to Write in Early Childhood - Deborah Rowe, Vanderbilt University

• Play Matters: New Materialisms and the Transitory Texts of Play - Karen E. Wohlwend, Indiana University

• Texturizing Time: Authoring Writerly Identities through Artifactual Remembering - Beth Buchholz, Appalachian State University