Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning

Multimodality and Governmentality

Mary Hamilton, Rachel Heydon, Kathryn Hibbert, Roz Stooke, Mary Hamilton, Rachel Heydon, Kathryn Hibbert, Roz Stooke

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781472587459
• eBook ISBN: 9781472587480
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Teaching Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning addresses two paradoxical currents that are sweeping through the contemporary educational field. The first is the opening up of possibilities for multimodal communication as a result of developments in digital technologies and the sensitivity to multiliteracies. The second is the increasing pressure from standardised testing, accountability and performance measurement which pull curricular and pedagogical practices out of alignment with the everyday informal practices and interests of teachers and learners and narrow opportunities for diverse expressions of literacy.

Bringing together an international team of scholars to examine the tensions and struggles that result from the current educational climate, the book provides a much-needed discussion of the intersection of technologies of literacies, education and self. It does so through diverse approaches, including philosophical, theoretical and methodological treatments of multimodality and governmentality, and a range of literacies - early years, primary school, workplace, digital, middle school, secondary school, indigenous, adult and place. With examples taken from all stages of education and in several countries, the book allows readers to explore a range of multimodal practices and the ways in which governmentality plays out across them.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• About the Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Regimes of Literacy Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope
• 2 Beyond Governmentality: The Responsible Exercise of Freedom in Pursuit of Literacy Assessment Sharon Murphy
• 3 Re-centring the Role of Care in Young People’s Multimodal Literacies: A Collaborative Seeing Approach Claire Fontaine and We dy Luttrell
• 4 Multimodality and Governmentality in Kindergarten Literacy Curricula Rachel Heydon
• 5 Re-educating the Educator’s Gaze: Is Pedagogical Documentation Ready for School? Roz Stooke
• 6 Regulatory Gaze and ‘Non-sense’ Phonics Testing in Early Literacy Rosie Flewitt and Guy Roberts-Holmes
• 7 Critical and Multimodal Literacy Curricula Peggy Albers, Jerome C. Harste and Vivian Maria Vasquez
• 8 Governing through Implicit and Explicit Assessment Acts: Multimodality in Mathematics Classrooms Lisa Björklund Boistrup
• 9 The Secret of ‘Will’ in New Times: Assessment Affordances of a Cloud Curriculum Kathryn Hibbert
• 10 Myth-Making and Meaning-Making: The School and Indigenous Children David Rose
• 11 Digital Literacies and Higher Education Richard Andrews
• 12 The Pecket Way: Negotiating Multimodal Learning Spaces in a User-run Community Education Project Mary Hamilton
• 13 Beyond Essential Skills: Creating Spaces for Multimodal Text Production within Canada’s ‘Minimal Proficiency’ Policy Regime Suzanne Smythe
• Afterword
• Index