An approach to literacy that understands it as lived and
experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and
populations.This book approaches literacy as lived and experienced
in the everyday. A living literacies approach draws not only on
such official, schooled activities as reading, writing, speaking,
and listening but also on such routine, tacit activities as
scrolling through Instagram, watching news footage, and listening
to music. It goes beyond well-worn framings of literacy as an
object of study to reimagine literacy as constantly in motion,
vital, and dynamic, filled with affective intensities. A lived
literacies approach implies a turn to activism, to hopeful
practice, and to creativity. The authors examine literacies through
a series of active verbs: seeing, disrupting, hoping, knowing,
creating, and making. Case studies--ranging from an exploration of
photography as a way to shift perspectives to a project in which
adults teach young people how to fish--show lived literacies in
both theory and practice. With these chapters, the authors position
literacy differently. They make it possible to see literacy in
everyday activities, woven into the modes of seeing and knowing. By
disruption and activism, literacy can encompass a wide array of
practices--exchanging information at a school gate or making a
collage. Grounding theory in the sites and spaces of their
research, working with artists, photographers, poets, and makers,
the authors issue a call to action for literacy education.
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