Transmodal Communications

Margaret R. Hawkins is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her work focuses on languages, literacies and learning across classroom, home and community-based settings in local and global contexts. As a community-engaged scholar she has worked with schools, communities, community organizations and institutions of higher education around the world. Her current focus is exploring semiotics and relations in transmodal communications. She is the recipient of the Leadership Through Research Award from the Second Language Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association (2019) and the Erwin Zolt Digital Literacy Gamechanger Award from the International Literacy Association (2019).

In multiple case studies from the Global StoryBridges research project, this book demonstrates how young people encounter and make sense of each other, and navigate difference within and across distance and diversity. It is essential reading for anyone engaged in teaching or researching social justice in transglobal contexts.

• ContributorsChapter 1. Margaret R. Hawkins: Global StoryBridges: Being and BecomingChapter 2. Emilee Moore, Claudia Vallejo Rubinstein, Júlia Llompart-Esbert & Miaomiao Zhang: Building Scalar Frames of Understandability in ‘Trans’ Practices within a Catalan Global StoryBridges SiteChapter 3. Anneliese Cannon & Sarah J. Turner: Cosmopolitan Aims/Cosmopolitan Realities: How Immigrant Youth Negotiate Languaging and Identity in One After-School ProgramChapter 4. Rui Li & Feng Jiayu: A Place-Based Critical Transmodal Analysis of Chinese Youth’s Digital StorytellingChapter 5. Willy Ngaka: Transnational Transmodal Terrain: Perspectives from Ugandan Lugbara YouthChapter 6. Gordon B. West, Bingjie Zheng & Trang D. Tran: Youth Transmodally Indexing Social Discourses: A Vietnam Video Narrative AnalysisChapter 7. Sara J. Goldberg & Sarah Nazziwa: Critical Cosmopolitanism and Sustainable Education: Primary Educator Perspectives from Uganda and the United StatesChapter 8. Mario E. López-Gopar, Vilma Huerta Cordova, William M. Sughrua and Edwin Nazaret León Jiménez: Developing Decolonizing Pedagogies with Mexican Pre-Service 'English' TeachersChapter 9. Patricia Ratanapraphart, Lisa Velarde, Nikhil M. Tiwari and Suman Barua: Positionality Revisited: A Critical Examination of Meaning-Making and Collaboration in a Transnational Research TeamChapter 10. Li Wei: CodaIndex