{"id":487,"date":"2021-05-21T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literacies.cica.es\/?p=487"},"modified":"2021-05-21T11:49:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T11:49:30","slug":"seminario-living-literacies-for-social-change-09-03-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/literacies.cica.es\/en\/seminario-living-literacies-for-social-change-09-03-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: Living Literacies for Social Change (09\/03\/2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[This entry is an archive for the seminar organized by the Doctorate of the University of Seville and the research team of the R+D+i MATILDA Project (PID2019-104557GB-I00) as part of the Doctoral Education Program.PID2019-104557GB-I00<\/a>), que tuvo lugar el 9 de marzo de 2021<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this seminar, which took place on the 9th of march of 2021, the author explored her book Living Literacies<\/em><\/a> and the concept of how literacies are experienced in all aspects of everyday life. The book was born of a discussion with fellow author Jennifer Rowsell about how, when carrying out research in schools, homes, playgrounds and communities, they experienced literacy as lived. From this realization stemmed the idea of a book based around a series of verbs: living, knowing, creating, hoping, seeing, disrupting and making; in order to capture the living of literacies, the on-the ground seeing of the everyday. It draws from Brian Street\u2019s idea of literacy as a series of practices, patterned through the cultural living of the everyday. The main point was for the everyday to shine \u2013 the concept of \u2018schooled\u2019 literacy practices reduces the multi-faceted work of literacy to something around cursive script and correct spellings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presentation introduced the idea behind Living Literacies, and described some of the studies that make up the work, such as \u2018Writing in the Home and in the Street\u2019, Language as Talisman\u2019 and \u2018Imagine\u2019 as well as a recent study on zine-making in Uganda, \u2018Questioning the form\u2019. zines<\/em> Through these studies, the author argued for a recognition of the materiality of literacy and its potential to empower participants through crafting and creating literacies within communities; as well as reflected on the ways in which doing this engaged community research changed her understanding of literacies and led to the recognition of living literacies as a way of understanding literacy research (Grenfell and Pahl 2019). living literacies<\/em> como una forma de comprender la investigaci\u00f3n de la alfabetizaci\u00f3n (Grenfell y Pahl 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She began by posing the need to re-think what is and find new ways of recognizing literacy, and how it can be harnessed to meet the demands of everyday life. This would require new ways of knowing and making it possible for young people to reposition their learning and understanding, and central to these new ways would be an expansive and nuanced understanding of what literacy could become, which are the following concepts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n