‘Go Be a Writer’: Intra-activity with materials, time and space in literacy learning
‘Go Be a Writer’: Intra-activity with materials, time and space in literacy learning
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“成为一名作家”:识字学习中材料、时间和空间的内部活动
DOI:
10.1177/1468798414566702
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
Jessica M Kirchhofer
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作者:
Candace R. Kuby;Tara Gutshall Rucker;Jessica M Kirchhofer
This article is based on research in a United States second-grade classroom during a multimodal literacy workshop. Observing students working with tissue paper, foam board, string, pipe cleaners and other materials, we asked how is intra-activity with materials, time and space influencing literacy learning in Room 203? While the research partnership of the authors spanned four years, video and audio recordings, artefacts and interviews with children for this article focus on year two of the research. Poststructural enquiry methods of pedagogical documentation and thinking with theory were used for data production and analysis. Pedagogical documentation focuses not only on the expected ways of being and learning (in this case, the norms of writing in an early childhood classroom) but also on unexpected occurrences (departures from what is typical or developmental) when students write. Thinking with poststructural and posthumanist theories allowed us to explore time, space and materials with three ideas: departures from the expected, the notion of becoming and intra-activity with materials. We illustrate how intra-activity with materials, time and space manifested in two projects: a 3D birdhouse and a 19-foot giraffe mural. We encourage educators to consider how expanded definitions of writing that include intra-actions with a range of materials create learning opportunities for children to live out literacy desiring with multimodal artefacts.