metanarratives of literacy practices: libraries as sponsors of literacies

Presented by Buffy J. Hamilton, Ed.S.

February 2014

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Defining Brandt’s

“sponsors of literacy”

Questions and

Implications for Libraries

Libraries as Sponsors of

Literacy: Emerging Practices

and Possibilities

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Theory Informs Practice

Practice Informs Theory

Sponsors of Literacy

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Any agent, local or distant, concrete or

abstract, who…

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abstract, who…

and gains

by it in some way

Brandt views literacy as a “valuable—and volatile property”

that can potentially help individuals gain (or deny)“…power or

pleasure, [accrue] information, civil rights, education,

spirituality, status, [and] money.”

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Sponsors of literacy are the

around literacy Dr. Deborah Brandt,

Literacy and Learning, Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society

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and the source of

that grow up around it

Dr. Deborah Brandt,

Literacy and Learning, Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society

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“as new and powerful forms of literacy emerge, they diminish

the reach and possibilities of receding ones… forms of literacy

can now rise and recede many times within a single life

span…this phenomenon is what makes today’s literacy feel so

advanced and, at the same time, so destabilized.”

Dr. Deborah Brandt

examination of a person’s literacy sponsors “…exposes

the deeply textured history that lies within the literacy

practices of institutions and within any individuals’

literacy experiences.”

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“Accumulated layers of sponsoring influences—in

families, workplaces, schools, memory—carry forms of

literacy that have been shaped out of ideological and

economic struggles of the past”

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sponsors of literacy=Bakhtin’s “living dialogic threads

woven by socio-ideological consciousness around the

given object of the utterance”

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Deborah Brandt

“We have to make sure schools and libraries

invite critical and active uses of media that

strengthen our democratic potential.”

Dr. Deborah Brandt

“this means that our democratic institutions

(schools and libraries particularly) have to

work hard and thoughtfully to

mitigate these forces.” Deborah Brandt

How is the access, organization, and

privileging of literacy opportunities impacted by issues related to race, class,

and gender?

How might sponsors of literacy interpret their

ability to provide resources and

opportunities that help people transform their

uses of literacy that facilitate identity

development, agency and social mobility?

How do literacy sponsors contribute to what Brandt

defines as the literacy crisis: the perceived gap between rising standards

for achievement and people’s ability to meet

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relatively low barriers to

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one’s creations with others Photograph used with permission of Andy Plemmons

fluidity in the roles of

with one another

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members believe their

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participation is

conversations and participation mean

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communities formed around…

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communities formed around

Source: http://dmlhub.net/sites/default/files/ConnectedLearning_report.pdf

Ito, Mizuko, Kris Gutiérrez, Sonia Livingstone, Bill Penuel, Jean Rhodes, Katie Salen, Juliet Schor, Julian Sefton-Green, S. Craig Watkins. 2013. Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub.

Connected Learning

Facilities

Teaching and Learning

Collection

Staffing

Marketing and Web Presence

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library is the shared story of the

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how do we disrupt dominant literacy

practices?

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yet honor the responsibility of scaffolding

people’s access to the kinds of cultural capital

they need to succeed academically and

economically without sacrificing their identity

or sense of personal agency?

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If libraries aspire to “…nourish new kinds of knowledge producers, social innovators, and citizens who establish

alternative paths to opportunity and social

mobility” (Watkins), libraries must continually be aware of the ways they

function as sponsors of multiple forms of literacy

through regular action and reflection.

As writing rises in

prominence as the

“literate experience of the

consequence”, how will

this impact or reposition

reading literacy?

What are the implications

for libraries that have

traditionally privileged

reading literacy?

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New Media Literacies

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Making and Creating as “Composing”

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Making and Creating as “Composing”

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Inquiry Stance of Multiple Literacies

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Participatory Culture

Library as Human

Experience

Metanarratives of Learning

Literacy as Lifelong Process

Libraries as Potentially One Constant Site of

Literacy Opportunities

nuances of learning and literacy narratives of a

particular library can illuminate the ways that

library serves as a sponsor of literacy and provide

the library meaningful data to

think about pivot points

for change to support

equitable and

participatory

ecologies of

learning

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Radnor Public Library Lego Club • Met once a month; popularity has resulted

in demand for more meetings • Toddlers to teens • Each meeting has a theme; each meeting

lasts approximately 90 minutes Source: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6666669.html

Always In Stitches at Abington Community

Library

Source: http://www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/?p=6444

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Original photograph by Buffy Hamilton

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The Idea Box at Oak Park Library

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The Idea Box at Oak Park Library

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“Other artists from the

community have come in

and wanted to participate. It

has been a really interesting

talking point with patrons.”

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necessary

Source: http://dmlhub.net/sites/default/files/ConnectedLearning_report.pdf

Ito, Mizuko, Kris Gutiérrez, Sonia Livingstone, Bill Penuel, Jean Rhodes, Katie Salen, Juliet Schor, Julian Sefton-Green, S. Craig Watkins. 2013. Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub.

Connected Learning

Instructional Role

Management of STUFF

empower

transform align

The Third Teacher. "Hack Class: Shape Your Ecology, Empower Learning at SXSWedu 2013." Hack Class: Shape Your Ecology, Empower Learning at

SXSWedu 2013. SlideShare, 7 Mar. 2013. Web. 06 May 2013. <http://www.slideshare.net/thethirdteacher/hac-kclass-tttpresov1>.

Media specialists as instructional

designers and learning architects who

help provide diverse entry points to

learning for all students.

Creating a culture of curiosity,

questioning, problem solving, and

participation.

Practices with library mission and

school strategic plan

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