ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book the constructs like time and space are too abstract, too intellectual, or too philosophical to be the subject about education or literacy. It explores how operating in the timespaces of the present always draws on the past as people make sense of the present while simultaneously dreaming, envisioning, and conceptualizing possible futures. The book explores the ways the timespaces operate for literacy researchers, families, and students. It demonstrate how the past lives on-although in revised and modified forms-through ways of being and thinking in the present. The book focuses in particular on how one futures are connected to various technological advances that inspire students and point researchers in new directions. It explains Johnny Salda describes memory work as a qualitative research technique that explores how and why the past has shaped one's present condition in psychological, sociological, political, and cultural ways.
