Hackett, A., Pahl, K. orcid.org/0000-0001-8840-1121 and Pool, S. (2017) In amongst the glitter and the squashed blueberries: Crafting a collaborative lens for children’s literacy pedagogy in a community setting. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 12 (1). pp. 58-73. ISSN 1554-480X
Abstract
In this article, we bring together relational arts practice (Kester, 2004) with collaborative ethnography (Campbell and Lassiter, 2015) in order to propose art not as a way of teaching children literacy, but as a lens to enable researchers and practitioners to view children’s literacies differently. Both relational arts practice and collaborative ethnography decentre researcher/artist expertise, providing an understanding that “knowing” is embodied, material and tacit (Ingold, 2013). This has led us to extend understandings of multimodal literacy to stress the embodied and situated nature of meaning making, viewed through a collaborative lens (Hackett, 2014a; Heydon and Rowsell, 2015; Kuby et al, 2015; Pahl and Pool, 2011). We illustrate this approach to researching literacy pedagogy by offering a series of “little” (Olsson, 2013) moments of place/body memory (Somerville, 2013), which emerged from our collaborative dialogic research at a series of den building events for families and their young children. Within our study, an arts practice lens offered a more situated, and entwined way of working that led to joint and blurred outcomes in relation to literacy pedagogy.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Pedagogies: An International Journal. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Collaborative ethnography; dialogic arts practice; literacy pedagogy; emplacement; materials |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA NONE ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/K002686/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2017 16:32 |
Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2018 00:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2017.1285100 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1554480X.2017.1285100 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:112804 |