Reclaiming Literacies as Meaning Making

<p>Whitmore and Meyer bring together top literacy scholars from around the world to introduce the concept of <em>manifestations</em>: evidence of meaning making in literacy events practices processes products and thinking. Manifestation are windows into literacy identities and serve as affective and sociocultural signifiers of learners’ understanding at a point in time and in a specific context. The volume reclaims progressive spaces for understanding reading writing drawing speaking playing and other literacies. It grounds manifestations of literacies in the discourse of meaning making and demonstrates how literacy learners and educators are active agents in this complex social political emotional and multimodal process.</p><p>Ideal for preservice teachers graduate students and researchers in literacy education this book shifts the conversation away from treating literacies as acquired commodities and illustrates how educators engage with learners to deepen understanding of literacy learners’ experiences. Organized by five pillars of literacy—teaching learning language curriculum and sociocultural contexts—each section covers critical and cutting-edge topics and offers examples tools and strategies for research and practical applications in diverse classroom settings. Each chapter includes a range of examples and is followed by a short complementary reading extension to engage the reader.</p>