ERIC Number: EJ1196992
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Dec
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-1086-296X
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Writing "with" Wearables? Young Children's Intra-Active Authoring and the Sounds of Emplaced Invention
Wargo, Jon M.
Journal of Literacy Research, v50 n4 p502-523 Dec 2018
Drawing upon conceptual approaches in sound studies, posthuman literacies, and new materialisms, this article highlights how writing for young learners is always already an emplaced invention of "withness." Zeroing in on a diffractive experiment of young children reauthoring Showers's picture book, "The Listening Walk," this study charts how the withness of writing is a communicative project that is all at once elliptical, relational, and coexistent. Reading the literacy desirings and material??discursive intra-actions of 12 young children writing with wearables, the article illuminates how more-than-human ecologies of literacy amplify composition not as a practice of being, but of becoming. Thinking with Henriques's conception of rhythmic elements (periodic pulses, reciprocal resonances, and oscillating overtures), findings are presented as strategic sketches. Attuning to writing as a more-than-human assemblage, this article pedagogically amplifies new be(com)ings of writing and literacy-in-action while theoretically resituating research as a process that thinks "with."
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Literacy, Young Children, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Literacy, Creative Writing, Primary Education, Day Camp Programs, Teaching Methods, Auditory Stimuli, Video Technology, Visual Stimuli, Nonverbal Communication, Acoustics, Listening, Collaborative Writing
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Primary Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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