Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning: Multimodality and Governmentality

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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. Cover ......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 About the Contributors......Page 8 Introduction......Page 14 1 Regimes of Literacy Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope......Page 28 2 Beyond Governmentality: The Responsible Exercise of Freedom in Pursuit of Literacy Assessment Sharon Murphy......Page 38 3 Re-centring the Role of Care in Young People’s Multimodal Literacies: A Collaborative Seeing Approach Claire Fontaine and Wendy Luttrell......Page 56 4 Multimodality and Governmentality in Kindergarten Literacy Curricula Rachel Heydon......Page 70 5 Re-educating the Educator’s Gaze: Is Pedagogical Documentation Ready for School? Roz Stooke......Page 90 6 Regulatory Gaze and ‘Non-sense’ Phonics Testing in Early Literacy Rosie Flewitt and Guy Roberts-Holmes......Page 108 7 Critical and Multimodal Literacy Curricula Peggy Albers, Jerome C. Harste and Vivian Maria Vasquez......Page 128 8 Governing through Implicit and Explicit Assessment Acts: Multimodality in Mathematics Classrooms Lisa Björklund Boistrup......Page 144 9 The Secret of ‘Will’ in New Times: Assessment Affordances of a Cloud Curriculum Kathryn Hibbert......Page 162 10 Myth-Making and Meaning-Making: The School and Indigenous Children David Rose......Page 180 11 Digital Literacies and Higher Education Richard Andrews......Page 198 12 The Pecket Way: Negotiating Multimodal Learning Spaces in a User-run Community Education Project Mary Hamilton......Page 214 13 Beyond Essential Skills: Creating Spaces for Multimodal Text Production within Canada’s ‘Minimal Proficiency’ Policy Regime Suzanne Smythe......Page 234 Afterword......Page 252 Index......Page 256