Ideas That Changed Literacy Practices

Dennis Sumara is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Calgary. His areas of research and teaching include literacy education, queer studies in education, curriculum theory, and teacher education. His scholarly work has critiqued problematics associated with normativity in literacy education, curriculum studies, and teacher education. It also has informed creating productive ways to make schooling more inviting to the many individuals and groups who have in the past found themselves excluded. In so doing, he has been able to demonstrate how critically analyzing conceptions of normal and normativity in teaching and learning can create more inclusive and productive situations for everyone. Sumara was co-founder of the Journal for the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, former Editor of Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, and currently is Editor of Teaching Education Journal. He was awarded the 2003 Ed Fry Book Award by the National Reading Conference for his book Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters and the 2019 Canadian Association for Teacher Education Award for Distinguished Research Contributions. Donna E. Alvermann is the Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education and Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. Her interests include developing historical-autobiographical methods for uncovering silences that keep literacy research and scholarly writing from masking more than they disclose. Alvermann's research focuses on young people's critical digital literacies, their uses of popular culture, and a Foucauldian approach to genealogy involving historical texts. She is lead editor on the 7th edition of Theoretical Models and Processes of Literacy, and has published in the field's leading research journals, including, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, and the American Educational Research Journal. She is the recipient of numerous awards and was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame in 1999. From 1992-1997, Alvermann directed the National Reading Research Center at the University of Georgia (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6881-0657).

• Chapter 1Challenging the "I" That We AreDennis Sumara and Donna E. AlvermannChapter 2Reading and Learning: An Intricate and Inseparable BondPatricia A. AlexanderChapter 3Entanglements: Searching for Historical AuthenticityDonna E. AlvermannChapter 4Empowerment and Values in School ChangeKathryn H. AuChapter 5Listening Across DifferencesMaren AukermanChapter 6Literacy, English, and Video Games: Challenges and Continuities Through ChangeCatherine BeavisChapter 7When You Goin' Teach Us How to Make That Money?George BoggsChapter 8The Everydayness of Religious LiteraciesKevin BurkeChapter 9Nurturing Communities of Inquiry Across Difference: Decolonial Social Formations in Literacy Research and PracticeGerald CampanoChapter 10On the Failure of Reason in the Face of BeliefMark DressmanChapter 11"Where Are You?": Reading, Repositioning, and Imagining for Antiracist FuturesPatricia EncisoChapter 12Socially Embodied Experience: An Explanatory Model for Literacy Based on StrangenessJames Paul GeeChapter 13Performed EthnographyTara GoldsteinChapter 14Rich Points on a Reflexive Journey to Understanding Language–Literacy RelationshipsJudith GreenChapter 15Rhizomatic Cartography of a Literate LifeMargaret Carmody HagoodChapter 16Land, Language, and Learning: Living in Good RelationsJan HareChapter 17Transmediation: Nurturing Imagination Through AbductionJerome C. HarsteChapter 18Hybrid Spaces, Design, and Imagination in the Practice of Transformative Literacy Teacher Preparation: A Personal JourneyJames HoffmanChapter 19Naturalizing Literacy: Finding Meaning in the Biology of Language, Thought, and BeingGeorge G. HrubyChapter 20Refusing and Accepting the Hail: Interpellation as a Personally Liberating ConceptHilary JanksChapter 21Memes and Meme-ing: Research and MeaningMichele KnobelChapter 22Virtual Shifts: Rethinking Literacies in Home and SchoolLinda LaidlawChapter 23Memes and Meme-ing: Rethinking Internet Memes for a Better FutureColin LankshearChapter 24Agency and Assemblage in Children's LiteraciesKim LentersChapter 25Heteroglossia, Emotion, and the Transformation of SignsCynthia LewisChapter 26The Lyric of Witnessing and the Insight of ResonanceRebecca Luce-KaplerChapter 27Cultural Modeling on My Mind: Reframing Racialized Literacy Practices, and Reimagining Human LearningRamón Antonio MartínezChapter 28Making Meaning, Making SenseGuy MerchantChapter 29Wahkohtowin: Reading, Writing, and KinshipLorri Neilsen GlennChapter 30Enacting Critical Race Parenting Through/With a Family Literacies ArchiveRebecca RogersChapter 31An Intellectual Path Paved With Emotions and Shaped by CulturesPeter SmagorinskyChapter 32Restorying My Archive of DeferralsDennis SumaraChapter 33Going Public: Literacy Practices that Changed My IdeasJohn WillinskyAuthor BiographiesIndex