A Relational Literacy Research Perspective on Students Neighborhood Place-based Experiences, Literary Responses to and Production of Cli-fi, and AR Experiences with Climate Change Impacts

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session adopts a relational perspective on methods for conducting literacy research based on elementary students responding to picture books and sharing experiences with climate change impacts on their local neighborhoods; research on students’ relational responses to portrayals of climate change images in cli-fi literature for producing their cli-fi literature; and students’ AR experiences of a desert walk to voice their perceptions with peers about their perceptions of climate change impacts on the desert.

Content Area

• AREA 7. Critical, Cultural, and Social Issues of Literacy Practices In and Out of School

Chair

• Richard Beach, University of Minnesota

Discussant

• Rebecca L Woodard, University of Illinois Chicago

Individual Presentations

• Walking in Freshness: Placemaking as Mediating Relational Climate Literacies - Alexandra Panos, University of South Florida; Kristin Valle Geren, University of South Florida

• Students’ Relational Responses to and Creation of Cli-fi - Richard Beach, University of Minnesota

• Critical Place Inquiry: Exploring Relationality on an Augmented Reality Hike - Kelly Jay Smith, University of Arizona; Jill Castek, University of Arizona