• Presents an original view of literacy through a pluriversal model • Brings together related fields, including sustainability education, semiotics, and philosophy • Demonstrates how a pluriversal vision and model is essential for effective literacy practices that are inclusive and reflect learner needs in both the global north and south • Features research from global north and south

• Presents an original view of literacy through a pluriversal model • Brings together related fields, including sustainability education, semiotics, and philosophy • Demonstrates how a pluriversal vision and model is essential for effective literacy practices that are inclusive and reflect learner needs in both the global north and south • Features research from global north and south

Provide researchers with rich and clear theoretical foundations to engage in literacy research in ethical, creative, and responsive ways, and designed for researchers on the cutting edge of current understandings of literacy research and practice on difference, play, and the imaginary. Authors are leading scholars on creative and playful methods in literacy research Includes a combination of concrete methods of research, illustrations of practice, and theoretical discussion

This volume is dedicated to exploring and exposing the challenges, the possibilities, and the processes of empirical work in embodiment. Grounded in qualitative inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, the chapters describe perspectives and contexts of embodied research, but focus on the methodologies, methods, and analytic frames taken up to grapple with this ever-more theorised aspect of qualitative inquiry. The authors drawn together in this volume share an investment in the ways in which the body inscribes and is inscribed within research that foregrounds the cultural, social, affective, and political discourses that are at the core of how bodies act and are acted upon.

Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today's culture in which literacy practices reflect important cultural messages about the interplay of local and global civic engagement. The focus is on three areas of youth civic engagement and cultural critique: homelessness, violence, and performing adolescence. The authors explore how youth appropriate the arts, media, and literacy as resources and how this enables them to express their identities and engage in social and cultural engagement and critique. The book describes how the youth in the various projects represented entered the public sphere; the claims they made; the ways readers might think about pedagogical engagements, practice, and goals as forms of civic engagement; and implications for critical and arts and media-based literacy pedagogies in schools that forward democratic citizenship in a time when we are losing sight of issues of equity and social justice in our communities and nations.

This volume is dedicated to exploring and exposing the challenges, the possibilities, and the processes of empirical work in embodiment. Grounded in qualitative inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, the chapters describe perspectives and contexts of embodied research, but focus on the methodologies, methods, and analytic frames taken up to grapple with this ever-more theorised aspect of qualitative inquiry. The authors drawn together in this volume share an investment in the ways in which the body inscribes and is inscribed within research that foregrounds the cultural, social, affective, and political discourses that are at the core of how bodies act and are acted upon.

Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today's culture in which literacy practices reflect important cultural messages about the interplay of local and global civic engagement. The focus is on three areas of youth civic engagement and cultural critique: homelessness, violence, and performing adolescence. The authors explore how youth appropriate the arts, media, and literacy as resources and how this enables them to express their identities and engage in social and cultural engagement and critique. The book describes how the youth in the various projects represented entered the public sphere; the claims they made; the ways readers might think about pedagogical engagements, practice, and goals as forms of civic engagement; and implications for critical and arts and media-based literacy pedagogies in schools that forward democratic citizenship in a time when we are losing sight of issues of equity and social justice in our communities and nations.

Provide researchers with rich and clear theoretical foundations to engage in literacy research in ethical, creative, and responsive ways, and designed for researchers on the cutting edge of current understandings of literacy research and practice on difference, play, and the imaginary. Authors are leading scholars on creative and playful methods in literacy research Includes a combination of concrete methods of research, illustrations of practice, and theoretical discussion