Maker Literacies and Maker Identities in the Digital Age

Cheryl A. McLean is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, USA. Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation and Deputy Head of School at the School of Education, University of Bristol, UK.

• Introduction: Towards a notion of perceptual making. 1. 'Unruly Rules': Using Defamiliarisation to Tinker with Punctuation in Creative Writing Workshops. 2. Play in the Making: Developing a Range of Literacies through Making and Game-Based Activities 3. (Re)Mediating the Everyday: Examining Young Children’s Remediated Personal Narratives as Maker Literacies. 4. Re-configuring the Early Childhood Classroom as a Multimodal Makerspace. 5. Arts-Based Practice: A Tactical Pedagogy. 6. Makerspaces in K-12 Schools: Six Key Tensions. 7. Making Futures, Composing Worlds: Examining Young Children’s Making as Speculative Design. 8. The Sociomaterial Ecology of Emotions in a School’s Makerspace. 9. For a Fugitive Game Studies: Female Life’s Break from Game Culture and Black-Queer-Neurodiverse-Postcapitalist Revaluations of Game Study. 10. Crafting Stories and Cracking Codes in a Canadian Elementary School. Afterword: Dwelling on Making.