The creativity of social life: Re-conceptualising the literacy event

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Re-conceptualising the literacy event through nonrepresentational theory, papers in this symposium argue that theorizing creativity as intrinsic to sociality and not an exception may better attune the field to how human beings become differently through the use of our literacies in everyday encounters. Authors in the symposium therefore work to express the desires and affects of literacy events as they emerge through the creative act, research writing, and young children's literacies.

Content Area

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

Chair

• Christian Ehret, McGill University

Discussant

• Kevin Leander, Vanderbilt University

Individual Presentations

• The literacy event as a creative act: Learning to fail better - Kate Pahl, Manchester Metropolitan University; Steven Pool, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Relational transformations through the events of poststructural inquiry - Christian Ehret, McGill University; Lea Ehret, McGill University

• Literacy-as-event: tracing the appearance of literacy in the early years - Cathy Burnett, Sheffield Hallam University; Guy Merchant, Sheffield Hallam University