An approach to literacy that understands it as lived and experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and populations.

This book approaches literacy as lived and experienced in the everyday. A living literacies approach draws not only on such official, schooled activities as reading, writing, speaking, and listening but also on such routine, tacit activities as scrolling through Instagram, watching news footage, and listening to music. It goes beyond well-worn framings of literacy as an object of study to reimagine literacy as constantly in motion, vital, and dynamic, filled with affective intensities.

Kate Pahl is Professor of Arts and Literacy in the Faculty of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation in the School of Education at the University of Bristol, UK.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
FOREWORD xi Steve Pool
1 WHAT IS LIVING LITERACIES? 1 Jennifer Rowsell and Kate Pahl
2 SEEING: LIVING LITERACIES AS A PERCEIVED PRACTICE 25 Jennifer Rowsell and Terry Trzecak
3 DISRUPTING: THE LITERACIES OF ACTIVISM 49 Kate Pahl and Zanib Rasool
4 HOPING: THE LITERACIES OF THE "NOT YET" 67 Kate Pahl and Steve Pool
5 KNOWING: THE LITERACIES OF DIGITAL AND NONDIGITAL SPACES 91 Diane Collier and Jennifer Rowsell
6 CREATING: A LIVING LITERACIES APPROACH 117 Kate Pahl, Steve Pool, and Zanib Rasool
7 MAKING: MATERIALIZING AFFECT THROUGH MAKER LITERACIES 137 Jennifer Rowsell
CONCLUSION: APPLYING A LIVING LITERACIES APPROACH 163 Jennifer Rowsell and Kate Pahl
GLOSSARY 169
APPENDIX: FEATURED RESEARCH STUDIES 173
REFERENCES 181
INDEX 199