Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning

Mary Hamilton is Professor of Adult Learning and Literacy in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, UK. Her most recent book is Literacy and the Politics of Representation (2012).Rachel Heydon is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University, Canada. Her most recent book is Learning at the Ends of Life (2013). Kathryn Hibbert is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Centre Researcher at the Centre for Research Education and Innovation, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University, Canada. Roz Stooke is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University, Canada, where she teaches courses in Curriculum Studies, Literacy and Children’s Literature.

In Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning an all-star cast discusses the tensions between liberation and control in the digital age. This is the deepest discussion of multimodality and multiliteracies to date.

• Introduction, Mary Hamilton (Lancaster University, UK), Rachel Heydon (Western University, Canada), Kathryn Hibbert (Western University, Canada) and Rosamund Stooke (Western University, Canada)1. Regimes of Literacy, Mary Kalantzis (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Bill Cope (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) 2. Beyond Governmentality: The Responsible Exercise of Freedom in Pursuit of Literacy, Sharon Murphy (York University, Canada) 3. Re-Centering The Role Of Care In Young People’s Multimodal Literacies: A Collaborative Seeing Approach, Wendy Luttrell (CUNY, USA) and Claire Fontaine (CUNY, USA) 4. Multimodality and Governmentality in Kindergarten Literacy Curricula, Rachel Heydon (University of Western Ontario, Canada) 5.Re-Educating the Educator’s Gaze: Is Pedagogical Documentation Ready for School?, Rosamund Stooke (Western University, Canada)6.Regulatory Gaze and ‘Non-sense’ Phonics Testing in Early Literacy, Rosie Flewitt (University of London, UK) and Guy Roberts-Holmes (University of London, UK) 7. Critical and Multimodal Literacy Curricula, Peggy Albers (Georgia State University, USA), Jerome C. Harste (Indiana University, USA) and Vivian M. Vasquez (American University, USA)8. Governing through Implicit and Explicit Assessment Acts: Multimodality in Mathematics Classrooms, Lisa Björklund Boistrup (Stockholm University, Sweden)9.The Secret of ‘Will’ in New Times: Assessment Affordances of a Cloud Curriculum, Kathryn Hibbert (Western University, Canada)10. Myth Making and Meaning Making: The School and Indigenous Children, David Rose (University of Sydney, Australia)11. Digital Literacies and Higher Education, Richard Andrews (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) 12. The Pecket Way: Negotiating Multimodal Learning Spaces in a User-run Community Education Project, Mary Hamilton (Lancaster University, UK)13. Beyond Essential Ekills: Creating Spaces for Multimodal Text Production within Canada's 'Minimal Proficiency' Policy Regime, Suzanne Smythe (Simon Fraser University, Canada)Afterword, Mary Hamilton (Lancaster University, UK), Rachel Heydon (Western University, Canada), Kathryn Hibbert (Western University, Canada) and Rosamund Stooke (Western University, Canada)Index