Literacies, Learning, and the Body: Putting Theory and Research into Pedagogical Practice

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The essays, research studies, and pedagogical examples in this book provide a window into the embodied dimensions of literacy and a toolbox for interpreting, building on, and inquiring into the range of ways people communicate and express themselves as literate beings. The contributors investigate and reflect on the complexities of embodied literacies, honoring literacy learners and teachers as they holistically engage with texts in complex sociopolitical, historical, and cultural contexts. Considering these issues within a multiplicity of education spaces and literacy events inside and outside of institutional contexts, the book offers a fresh lens and rhetoric with which to address literacy education policies, giving readers a discursive repertoire necessary to develop and defend responsive curricula within an increasingly high-stakes, standardized schooling climate. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments PART I Why Bodies Matter in Literacy Research 1 Introduction: Assembling Research on Literacies and the Body 2 Inscription, Erasure, Embodiment: Literacy Research and Bodies of Knowledge PART II Disciplined Literacies, Disciplined Bodies 3 Reader Response and Embodied Performance: Body-Poems as Performative Response and Performativity 4 Disciplined within a Discipline: English Teachers Are Bound to Be Human Bodies PART III Living Literacies, Feeling Bodies 5 When the Body Acquires Pedagogy and It Hurts: Discursive Practices and Material Affects of Round Robin Reading 6 Shrinking In, Spilling Out, and Living Through: Affective Energy as Multimodal Literacies 7 Literacy, Emotion, and the Teaching/Learning Body 8 Racialized Bodies as Lived Experiences: How Phenomenology Might Offer Literacy Studies Another Perspective on the Body 9 Moving Off-Screen: Pathways for Understanding an Adolescent’s Embodied Experience of New Media Making PART IV Bodies as Social Texts 10 Race and Rag Dolls: Critically Engaging the Embodiment of Diversity in Lalaloopsy Transmedia 11 Traditionally Marginalized Bodies Making Space: Through Embodied Literacy Performances 12 Drawing Teachers in a Language Arts Methods Course: Images of Teachers, Literacy, and Pedagogy 13 “What Kind of Woman Are You?”: Performing Decency and Motherhood Behind Bars PART V Pervasive Bodies, Indeterminate Literacies 14 Bodies With and Without Organs: Literacies of a True Crime Sex and Violence Drama 15 Dead-Lines: Teachers’ Bureaucratic Habitus and Disciplinary Writing in Three South African Schools 16 Resisting the Script: Assuming Embodiment in Literacy Education PART VI Conclusion 17 On Literacies, Learning, and Bodies: Theorizing, Researching, and Imagining Pedagogies List of Contributors Index