Time and Space in Literacy Research

Catherine Compton-Lilly is Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Erica Halverson is Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

"This important volume sets the grounds for reframing literacy education as a means for the institutional construction and reorganization of space and time…. [It] shows how place and time shape and influence, enable and constrain peoples’ cultural practices with texts, whether in formal institutional or community and family settings."Allan Luke, from the Foreword"What could have been lost is a phrase that is fitting for what [this] book does for the literacy community: it saves memories and preserves agency in elegant and eloquent ways…. The front story of every chapter is to develop and enhance accounts of time and space in literacy research and the back-story is how we become and change as researchers across time and space. This is the story that intrigued me. Time and space, as they are seen in nuanced and inflected ways in the book, expose fundamental truths about life and learning…."Jennifer Rowsell, Brock University, Canada. From the Afterword

• Foreword: Allan Luke Introduction: Conceptualizing Past, Present, and Future TimespacesSection 1: Timespaces and the Past in Literacy ResearchIntroduction Chapter 1: Thank You, Mrs. Whitehouse: The Memory Work of One Student about His High School English Teacher, Forty Years Later Johnny SaldañaChapter 2: Invoking Modalities of Memory in the Writing ClassroomJuan C. GuerraChapter 3: "It’s about Living Your Life": Family Time and School Time as a Resource for Meaning Making in Homes, Schools and CommunitiesKate PahlChapter 4: Uses of Collective Memories in Classrooms for Constructing and Taking Up Learning OpportunitiesMargaret Grigorenko, Marlene Beierle, & David BloomeSection 2: Timespaces and the Present in Literacy ResearchIntroduction Chapter 5: Write on Time! The Role of Timescales in Defining and Disciplining Young WritersLorraine Falchi & Marjorie SiegelChapter 6: How Moments (and Spaces) Add up to Lives: Queer and Ally Youth Talking Together about LGBTQ-Themed BooksMollie V. Blackburn & Caroline T. ClarkChapter 7: Lost Voices in an American High School: Sudanese Male English Language Learners’ Perspectives on WritingBryan Ripley CrandallChapter 8: Spatializing Social Justice Research in English Educationsj MillerSection 3: Timespaces and the Future in Literacy ResearchIntroduction Chapter 9: Remixes: Time + Space in Youth Media Arts Organizations Michelle BassChapter 10: The Roles of Time and Task in Shaping Adolescents’ Talk about TextsJames S. ChisholmChapter 11: "After Apple Picking" and Fetal Pigs: The Multiple Social Spaces and Embodied Rhythms of Digital Literacy PracticesKevin M. Leander & Beth AplinChapter 12: The Compression of Time and Space in Transnational Social Fields: Mobilizing the Affordances of Digital Media with Latina StudentsLisa Schwartz, Silvia Noguerón-Liu, and Norma GonzalezAfterword: The time-space double helix of research Jennifer Rowsell