1st Edition

Maker Literacies and Maker Identities in the Digital Age Learning and Playing Through Modes and Media

Edited By Cheryl A. McLean, Jennifer Rowsell Copyright 2021
228 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores “making” in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artifacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings. Combining the arts with design to give a fuller picture of the engagement and wonder that unfolds with maker literacies, the book moves across such settings and themes as: Creativity and writing in... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Towards a notion of perceptual making
Cheryl A. McLean & Jennifer Rowsell

Chapter 1 - 'Unruly Rules': Using Defamiliarisation to Tinker with Punctuation in Creative Writing Workshops
Hugh F. Escott, Sarah Christie, Jane Hodson, & Deborah Bullivant

Chapter 2 - Play in the Making: Developing a Range of Literacies through Making and Game-Based Activities
Sandra Schamroth Abrams & Thomas LaRocca

Chapter 3 - (Re)Mediating the Everyday: Examining Young Children’s Remediated Personal Narratives as Maker Literacies
Cassie J. Brownell

Chapter 4 - Re-configuring the Early Childhood Classroom as a Multimodal Makerspace
Lisa Kervin & Barbara Comber

Chapter 5 – Arts-Based Practice: A Tactical Pedagogy
Mark Shillitoe

Chapter 6 - Makerspaces in K-12 Schools: Six Key Tensions
Amy Stornaiuolo & T. Philip Nichols

Chapter 7 - Making Futures, Composing Worlds: Examining Young Children’s Making as Speculative Design
Jon M. Wargo & Melita Morales

Chapter 8 - The Sociomaterial Ecology of Emotions in a School’s Makerspace
Kristiina Kumpulainen & Anu Kajamaa

Chapter 9 - For a Fugitive Game Studies: Female Life’s Break from Game Culture and Black-Queer-Neurodiverse-Postcapitalist Revaluations of Game Study
Lea Ehret

Chapter 10 - Crafting Stories and Cracking Codes in a Canadian Elementary School
Amélie Lemieux & Jennifer Rowsell

Afterword: Dwelling on Making
Kylie Peppler

Index

Biography

Cheryl A. McLean is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, USA.

Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation and Deputy Head of School at the School of Education, University of Bristol, UK.