Reclaiming Literacies as Meaning Making

Taylor & Francis

Reclaiming Literacies as Meaning MakingManifestations of Values, Identities, Relationships, and Knowledge\nAuthor(s): Kathryn Whitmore, Richard Meyer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367074210, 978-0367074210\nSynopsis\nWhitmore and Meyer bring together top literacy scholars from around the world to introduce the concept of manifestations: evidence of meaning making in literacy events, practices, processes, products, and thinking. Manifestation are windows into literacy identities, and serve as affective and sociocultural signifiers of learners understanding at a point in time and in a specific context. The volume reclaims progressive spaces for understanding reading, writing, drawing, speaking, playing, and other literacies. It grounds manifestations of literacies in the discourse of meaning making and demonstrates how literacy learners and educators are active agents in this complex, social, political, emotion.