Table of Contents
Foreword Lesley Bartlett Lalitha Vasudevan vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 Conceptualizing Artifactual Literacies: A Framework 1
Development of a Theory of Artifactual Literacies 2
Literacy and Power 7
The Everyday in the Artifactual 7
A Theory of Artifactual Literacies Revisited 11
The Structure of This Book 12
Summing Up: Conceptualizing Artifactual Literacies 13
2 Artifacts Connecting Communities 15
Looking at the Concept of Community 17
Capturing the Community Through Cameras 19
Understanding Communities as Ecologies Through Mapping 21
Inscribing Place and Space Through Text-Making 25
Crossing Borders and Spaces Through Artifacts 27
Bridging Borders with Family Stories 29
Classrooms as Communities: Connecting Through Listening 37
Summing Up: Artifacts Connecting Communities 38
3 Artifacts, Talk, and Listening 39
Crafting Talk, Talking Craft 42
Talk Evoking Artifacts in the Telling of Stories 46
Talk, Artifacts, and Felt Emotions 48
Artifacts as a Tool for Listening 54
Summing Up: Artifacts, Talk, and Listening 55
4 Artifactual Critical Literacies 56
Defining Critical Literacies 56
Recognizing Inequalities of Place and Space 59
Engaging with Critical Pedagogies of Place 61
Linking Place-Based Education and Artifactual Critical Literacies 62
Mediating Identity in Place 63
Looking at Studies of Practice 64
Privileging the Artifactual 71
Summing Up: Artifactual Critical Literacies 72
5 Adolescent Writing and Artifactual Literacies 73
The Community and Underachievement 74
Traveling Artifacts That Reconfigure Identity 76
Mediating the "Life-Worlds" of Young People with Literary Worlds 77
Traveling Objects and Reconfigured Identities 80
Reconfigured Identities Through Artifactual Literacies 89
Summing Up: Adolescent Writing and Artifactual Literacies 91
6 Digital Storytelling as Artifactual 93
Three Digital Storytellers 94
Digital Storytelling as Artifactual Literacies: Unpacking the Process 102
Revisiting the "How": Making It Happen 107
Summing Up: Digital Storytelling as Artifactual 113
7 Teaching Artifactual Literacies 114
Artifactual Literacies in the Classroom: Teachers' Perspectives 115
Artifactual Literacies and Learning 118
Teaching and Learning Artifactual Literacies 119
Artifactual Literacies and Writing 122
Creating Opportunities for Artifactual Critical Literacies 123
Consequences of Artifactual Literacies 130
Summing Up: Rethinking Literacy Education Through Artifactual Literacies 133
Appendix A Our Research Studies 135
Appendix B Our Way into Artifactual Literacies: A Personal Journey 141
References 145
About the Authors 155
Index 157
