The scrumpled geography of literacies for learning

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ID2923973
AuthorsRichard Edwards (0000-0002-0234-8268, University of Stirling, corresponding author), Roz Ivanic (Lancaster University), G Mannion (0000-0003-2233-9278, University of Stirling)
Year2009
Volume30
Issue4
Pages483-499
Publication date2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596300903237248
OpenAlexW2081425754
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited27

This paper draws upon the experience of the Literacies for Learning in Further Education research project in the UK. The project explored the literacy demands of a number of curriculum areas and the literacy practices of students in their everyday lives, in order to identify those ‘border literacies’ which may act as resources for learning and attainment within their college courses. Drawing on Literacy Studies and aspects of actor-network theory, this article outlines the conceptual innovations that we found necessary arising from our data analysis, extending existing work on situating practice and boundary crossing to posit a conceptual landscape that we term the scrumpled geography of literacies for learning. This landscape is one in which purification, naturalization and translation are key concepts, where literacy practices are enacted as network effects of a folding of a range of micro-practices into conglomerations

Curriculum · Information literacy · Literacy · Pedagogy · Sociology · Digital Storytelling and Education · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Literacy, Media, and Education

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