Art and Craft of Literacy Pedagogy

<p>In tracing community and how art and craft can be harnessed to express and manifest communities this book raises fundamental questions and issues about the nature of literacy in everyday lives. Threaded throughout the contributions is an abiding belief in the expansive and flexible nature of literacy which might one moment involve photography; in the next drama; and in the next invite song coupled with movement. Something happens to literacy when it is seen through multiple modalities of meaning and communication: it moves from a <i>thing </i>to a thought and a feeling. Pedagogically the book offers readers a carousel of places and people to witness literacy with from young children all the way to grandparents. This opens up a sense of geography and age proving that literacy really does reside in the centre and corners of our lives. With nine chapters by scholars in Canada the United Kingdom and the United States all researching under the umbrella of the same research study the collection provides a unique perspective on human and aesthetic communication and shows differences between social groups. </p><p></p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Pedagogies: An International Journal. </i></p>