What’s Art Got to Do With It?: Reimaging Literacy

Session Submission Type: Alternative Format Session

Abstract

Literacy is reimaged using poetic distillation as a PechaKucha, 20 slides x 20 seconds. We use the word “reimage” to disrupt the “normal” and “natural” image of literacy (reading and writing) and literacy research (qualitative/quantitative/mixed methods) through artwork and poetry generated from it. PechaKucha affords us a critical space to talk to, with, and against imagined and innovative alternatives to studying and analyzing arts-generated data.

Content Area

• Area 11: Research Theory, Methods, and Practices

Discussant

• Barbara Comber, Queensland University of Technology

Presenters

• Jerome C. Harste, Indiana University

• Teri Holbrook, Georgia State University

• Hilary Janks, University of the Witwatersrand

• Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Mount Saint Vincent University

• Peggy Albers, Georgia State University

Individual Presentations

• What's Art Got to Do With It?: Reimaging Literacy - Peggy Albers, Georgia State University; Jerome C. Harste, Indiana University; Teri Holbrook, Georgia State University; Hilary Janks, University of the Witwatersrand; Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Mount Saint Vincent University