Making and Mobilizing Possibilities for Public Education: Four Studies of Literacy Learning Across Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Following the conference theme, this session explores relationships between mobility, connectivity and possibilities for individual and collective educational futures. Sharing a framework oriented to interdependences of material, embodied, digital and communicative mobilities (Sheller, 2014), the qualitative studies informing this session investigate ways in which literate actors and artifacts are revised and re-coordinated as they move across spaces, times, and media. By tracing out and analyzing trajectories of literacy that crisscross sites in and out of school, presenters show how careful attention to the complexity of students’ mobile literacies in the present can help us identify and pursue possibilities for more equitable and responsive systems of public education in the future.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Jennifer Rowsell, Brock University

Papers

• Literacy, Mobility, and Collaborative Writing on the 7 Train - Brice Nordquist, Syracuse University

• Complicating "Connected" Contexts: Modeling Modes of Transcontextual Connectivity - David Sabey, Vanderbilt University - Peabody College; Kevin M Leander, Vanderbilt University

• Relocating the Development of Literate Persons and Practices: Tracing the Historical Trajectories of an Engineer-in-the-Making - Kevin Roozen, University of Central Florida

• Makerspaces, Makers' Places: The Public Ethos of Maker Culture in Education - Amélie Lemieux, Brock University; Jennifer Rowsell, Brock University