ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the relationship between individual and shared subjectivities, people's identities-in-practice, and meaning making. By meaning making that referring acts of text making in homes and schools, including talk, oral storytelling, gesture, film, and photography as well as writing and making meaning from text, including reading. The chapter examines the spiral movements of memory as disruptive meaning generators within homes and within collaborative discussions with children and artists in schools. It disrupts the grand narrative of modernism with some interruptions from families and schools that involved with over the past several years. The chapter discusses the work of the author working collaboratively with artists, based on the Arts and Humanities Research Council Writing in the Home and in the Street project and for the Reason to Writeproject in the school. This means that normative constructs, such as time and space, interrogated a new to enable to recognize more clearly the epistemologies of the people engage with in educational settings.