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Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 15
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"Wearing Only Our Skin": The Multimodal Literacies Classroom as a Living Arrangement
Zapata, Angie; Kleekamp, Monica C.
English Teaching: Practice and Critique, v21 n2 p113-127 2022
Purpose: Literacy research exploring multimodal composition and justice-oriented children's literature each have rich landscapes and histories. This paper aims to add to both of these bodies of scholarship through the emerging assemblage of Studio F, a fifth-grade classroom. The authors share poststructural analytic encounters with attention to the unexpected multimodal relationships and the justice-oriented talk and texts that emerged, as well as the classroom conditions that produce them. Design/methodology/approach: The authors think with assemblage theory to examine the newness that emerged as one small group of students wrestled with the emerging instances of racism present in Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles. Findings: Together, the living arrangement of bodies, materials and discourses created openings for students' explorations of race and racism. Originality/value: This paper offers teachers and researchers space to rethink what is possible in the literacy classroom when the authors re-envision classrooms as vibrant assemblages, support emergent multimodal composing processes and follow students' critical encounters toward justice-oriented literacies.
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Justice, Childrens Literature, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Racial Bias, Freedom, Race, Small Group Instruction, Literacy Education, Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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