List of Contributors
1. Introduction
Julia Gillen and Uta Papen
2. Participatory workshops to research digital technologies with young children
Lisa Kervin and Jessica Mantei
3. Crafting Dreamcatchers and Making Keroppi: Investigating Lived-Sensed Literacy Research as ‘New’ Literacy Studies
Jennifer Rowsell, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, and Saman Qarni
4. Doing Ethnographic Research with Adult Literacy Learners
Ahmmardouh Mjaya
5. Working with principles and assumptions in classroom based ethnographic research
Lucy Henning
6. The Collaborative Critical Walkthrough Method; A Participatory Approach to Studying Literacy Practices in a Postdigital World
Rabani Garg, Amy Stornaiuolo, Clara Abbott, Emmy Talian, and Jen Freed
7. Researching Literacy Policy
Uta Papen
8. Literacy Studies: approaches to practitioner research
Kerry Scattergood
9. Navigating ethical dilemmas in adult literacy research
Virginie Thériault, Jean-Pierre Mercier, and Marie Michèle Grenon
10. Researching literacies across time and contexts
Soledad Montes Sanchez and Karin Tusting
11. Historical methods
Julia Gillen
Index
Biography
Julia Gillen is Professor of Literacy Studies and Co-Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. Her current research interests include developing a posthuman approach to the study of writing systems, and young children’s use of digital media. She is editor of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy as well as the author of Digital Literacies (Routledge, 2014) and The Edwardian Picture Postcard as a Communications Revolution: A Literacy Studies Perspective (Routledge, 2023).
Uta Papen is Professor of Literacy Studies and, together with Julia Gillen co-directs the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. Julia and Uta co-edit the Routledge Research in Literacy and Literacies series. She is the author of Literacy and Globalization: Reading and Writing in Times of Social (Routledge, 2006) and Cultural Change and Literacy and Education: Policy, Practice and Public Opinion (Routledge, 2015). In her research, she examines literacy policy and practice for children and adults.
"Perhaps the greatest challenges scholars and educators of literacy practices confront are the difficulties of "seeing" and narrating how ordinary people in their everyday lives use written language to construct lives, to oppose alienation, commodification, and oppression, and to seek joy, mutuality, and dignity. Taken together, the chapters in this book eloquently and insightfully tell an ongoing story of how Literacy Studies scholars have created and re-created ways to "see" and narrate people's lives and literacy practices."
David Bloome, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University, USA
