Excursions in Latinx Canadian Music: A Critical Appreciative Inquiry to Foster Transcultural Literacies of Youth

• In Event: Bridging Multilingualism and Multiliteracies

Abstract

This paper presents the findings that emerged from a critical appreciative inquiry with plurilingual youth that explored how a Spanish language teacher used Latinx Canadian music to develop their transcultural literacies. Employing arts-based methods, the teacher and researcher designed learning so that students accessed their language repertoires in multimodal ways. Findings were analyzed through a new materialist and transcultural literacies approach, which demonstrated how the material relations produced the teaching and learning assemblage.

Author

• Eve Moreau, University of Calgary