ABSTRACT
The essays, research studies, and pedagogical examples in this book provide a window into the embodied dimensions of literacy and a toolbox for interpreting, building on, and inquiring into the range of ways people communicate and express themselves as literate beings. The contributors investigate and reflect on the complexities of embodied literacies, honoring literacy learners and teachers as they holistically engage with texts in complex sociopolitical, historical, and cultural contexts. Considering these issues within a multiplicity of education spaces and literacy events inside and outside of institutional contexts, the book offers a fresh lens and rhetoric with which to address literacy education policies, giving readers a discursive repertoire necessary to develop and defend responsive curricula within an increasingly high-stakes, standardized schooling climate.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|37 pages
Why Bodies Matter in Literacy Research
part II|33 pages
Disciplined Literacies, Disciplined Bodies
chapter 3|16 pages
Reader Response and Embodied Performance
part III|79 pages
Living Literacies, Feeling Bodies
chapter 5|15 pages
When the Body Acquires Pedagogy and it Hurts
chapter 6|15 pages
Shrinking in, Spilling out, and Living Through
chapter 8|14 pages
Racialized Bodies as Lived Experiences
chapter 9|16 pages
Moving Off-Screen
part IV|66 pages
Bodies as Social Texts
chapter 10|15 pages
Race and Rag Dolls
chapter 11|12 pages
Traditionally Marginalized Bodies Making Space
chapter 12|23 pages
Drawing Teachers in a Language Arts Methods Course
part V|49 pages
Pervasive Bodies, Indeterminate Literacies
chapter 15|16 pages
Dead-Lines
part VI|9 pages
Conclusion