Artifactual literacies: every object tells a story

Foreword / Lesley Bartlett / Lalitha Vasudevan

Acknowledgments

1. Conceptualizing Artifactual Literacies: A Framework

Development of a Theory of Artifactual Literacies

Literacy and Power

The Everyday in the Artifactual

A Theory of Artifactual Literacies Revisited

The Structure of This Book

Summing Up: Conceptualizing Artifactual Literacies

2. Artifacts Connecting Communities

Looking at the Concept of Community

Capturing the Community Through Cameras

Understanding Communities as Ecologies Through Mapping

Inscribing Place and Space Through Text-Making

Crossing Borders and Spaces Through Artifacts

Bridging Borders with Family Stories

Classrooms as Communities: Connecting Through Listening

Summing Up: Artifacts Connecting Communities

3. Artifacts, Talk, and Listening

Crafting Talk, Talking Craft

Talk Evoking Artifacts in the Telling of Stories

Talk, Artifacts, and Felt Emotions

Artifacts as a Tool for Listening

Summing Up: Artifacts, Talk, and Listening

4. Artifactual Critical Literacies

Defining Critical Literacies

Recognizing Inequalities of Place and Space

Engaging with Critical Pedagogies of Place

Linking Place-Based Education and Artifactual Critical Literacies

Mediating Identity in Place

Looking at Studies of Practice

Privileging the Artifactual

Summing Up: Artifactual Critical Literacies

5. Adolescent Writing and Artifactual Literacies

The Community and Underachievement

Traveling Artifacts That Reconfigure Identity

Mediating the "Life-Worlds" of Young People with Literary Worlds

Traveling Objects and Reconfigured Identities

Reconfigured Identities Through Artifactual Literacies

Summing Up: Adolescent Writing and Artifactual Literacies

6. Digital Storytelling as Artifactual

Three Digital Storytellers

Digital Storytelling as Artifactual Literacies: Unpacking the Process

Revisiting the "How": Making It Happen

Summing Up: Digital Storytelling as Artifactual

7. Teaching Artifactual Literacies

Artifactual Literacies in the Classroom: Teachers' Perspectives

Artifactual Literacies and Learning

Teaching and Learning Artifactual Literacies

Artifactual Literacies and Writing

Creating Opportunities for Artifactual Critical Literacies

Consequences of Artifactual Literacies

Summing Up: Rethinking Literacy Education Through Artifactual Literacies

Appendix A. Our Research Studies

Appendix B. Our Way into Artifactual Literacies: A Personal Journey

References

About the Authors

Index