Literacy Lives in Transcultural Times

Rahat Zaidi is an Associate Professor and Chair in Language and Literacy at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada.Jennifer Rowsell is a Professor and Canada Research Chair and directs the Centre for Multiliteracies in the Faculty of Education, Brock University, Canada.

• Foreword, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction: Literacy lives in transcultural times, 2. Complicating literacies: Settler ways of being with story(ies) on Wabanaki lands, 3. International struggles over ‘low literacy’ versus the alternative ‘social practices’ approach, 4. Multiliteracies reconsidered: A "pedagogy of multiliteracies" in the context of inquiry-based approaches, 5. Examining the relational space of the self and other in the language-drama classroom: Transcultural multiliteracies, situated practice and the cosmopolitan imagination, 6. Monster High: Converging imaginaries of girlhood in tweens’ digital doll play, 7. Investing in new literacies for a cosmopolitan future, 8. Public engagement and digital authoring: Korean adolescents write for/as action, 9. Artifacts as catalysts for reimagining transcultural literacy pedagogies, 10. Rescripting classed lives and imagining audiences as online cosmopolitan practice, 11. Poststructural and posthuman theories as literacy research methodologies: Tensions and possibilities, 12. Proper distance and the hope of cosmopolitanism in a classroom discussion about race, 13. Towards transculturalism in tackling diversity for literacy teacher education, About the Editors and Contributors, Index