Art and Craft of Literacy Pedagogy

Jennifer Rowsell is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies at Brock University, St. Catherines, Canada. She has written, co-written, and co-edited 20 books on such wide-ranging topics as family literacy, New Literacy Studies, multimodality, youth and popular culture, digital literacies, ethnography, and multiliteracies. She is the co-editor of the Routledge Expanding Literacies in Education book series with Cynthia Lewis, and she is the Department Editor of Digital Literacies for The Reading Teacher. Her current research interests include applying multimodal, arts-based practices with youth across schooling and community contexts; expanding research methodologies and theories of literacy for digital, immersive, and game-based research; and longitudinal research with families examining ways of visualizing identities.

• Introduction – Passing through: reflecting on the journey through community arts zone 1. Expressing community through freedom market and visual connections 2. The fluid infusion of musical culture: embodied experiences in a grade one classroom 3. Seven chilis: making visible the complexities in leveraging cultural repertories of practice in a designed teaching and learning environment 4. In amongst the glitter and the squashed blueberries: crafting a collaborative lens for children’s literacy pedagogy in a community setting 5. Moving parts in imagined spaces: community arts zone’s movement project 6. Embracing the unknown in community arts zone visual arts 7. Imperfect/I’m perfect: bodies/embodiment in post-secondary and elementary settings 8. Playlinks: a theatre-for-young audiences artist-in-the-classroom project