ERIC Number: EJ1177473
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-0561
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Multimodal Becoming: Literacy in and beyond the Classroom
Lenters, Kimberly
Reading Teacher, v71 n6 p643-649 May-Jun 2018
The author explores the possibilities that posthumanist thinking offers for amplifying our understanding of multimodality in children's literacies in school and beyond. Drawing on data from a five-month case study on the multimodal literacy practices of six fifth-grade students across home, community, and school settings, the author focuses on one 10-year-old student. The author uses the student's engagement with graphic novels as a starting place for considering what students' entanglements with multimodal literacies beyond the classroom can teach us about multimodality in classrooms. The author first discusses multimodality as it is typically framed and then puts this framing into conversation with posthumanist perspectives on literacy learning to open up considerations of what counts as multimodality. Finally, the author discusses ways that thinking with posthumanist concepts such as affect, embodiment, relationship, movement, and place can enhance both multimodal literacy instruction and students' engagement with literacy.
Descriptors: Literacy, Case Studies, Grade 6, Learner Engagement, Cartoons, Novels, Multimedia Materials, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies, Classroom Techniques
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Grade 6
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Language: English
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