Living Literacies

This book approaches literacy as lived and experienced in the everyday. A living literacies approach draws not only on such official, schooled activities as reading, writing, speaking, and listening but also on such routine, tacit activities as scrolling through Instagram, watching news footage, and listening to music. It goes beyond well-worn framings of literacy as an object of study to reimagine literacy as constantly in motion, vital, and dynamic, filled with affective intensities.A lived literacies approach implies a turn to activism, to hopeful practice, and to creativity. The authors examine literacies through a series of active verbs- seeing, disrupting, hoping, knowing, creating, and making. Case studies-ranging from an exploration of photography as a way to shift perspectives to a project in which adults teach young people how to fish-show lived literacies in both theory and practice. With these chapters, the authors position literacy differently. They make it possible to