Ideas that Changed Literacy Practices

Dennis Sumara is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Calgary. His areas of research and teaching include literacy education, queer studies in education, curriculum theory, and teacher education. His scholarly work has critiqued problematics associated with normativity in literacy education, curriculum studies, and teacher education. It also has informed creating productive ways to make schooling more inviting to the many individuals and groups who have in the past found themselves excluded. In so doing, he has been able to demonstrate how critically analyzing conceptions of normal and normativity in teaching and learning can create more inclusive and productive situations for everyone. Sumara was co-founder of the Journal for the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, former Editor of Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, and currently is Editor of Teaching Education Journal. He was awarded the 2003 Ed Fry Book Award by the National Reading Conference for his book Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters and the 2019 Canadian Association for Teacher Education Award for Distinguished Research Contributions. Donna E. Alvermann is the Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education and Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. Her interests include developing historical-autobiographical methods for uncovering silences that keep literacy research and scholarly writing from masking more than they disclose. Alvermann's research focuses on young people's critical digital literacies, their uses of popular culture, and a Foucauldian approach to genealogy involving historical texts. She is lead editor on the 7th edition of Theoretical Models and Processes of Literacy, and has published in the field's leading research journals, including, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, and the American Educational Research Journal. She is the recipient of numerous awards and was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame in 1999. From 1992-1997, Alvermann directed the National Reading Research Center at the University of Georgia (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6881-0657).

Chapter 1
Challenging the "I" That We Are
Dennis Sumara and Donna E. Alvermann
Chapter 2
Reading and Learning: An Intricate and Inseparable Bond
Patricia A. Alexander
Chapter 3
Entanglements: Searching for Historical Authenticity
Donna E. Alvermann
Chapter 4
Empowerment and Values in School Change
Kathryn H. Au
Chapter 5
Listening Across Differences
Maren Aukerman

Chapter 6
Literacy, English, and Video Games: Challenges and Continuities Through Change
Catherine Beavis
Chapter 7
When You Goin' Teach Us How to Make That Money?
George Boggs
Chapter 8
The Everydayness of Religious Literacies
Kevin Burke

Chapter 9
Nurturing Communities of Inquiry Across Difference: Decolonial Social Formations in Literacy Research and Practice
Gerald Campano
Chapter 10
On the Failure of Reason in the Face of Belief
Mark Dressman
Chapter 11
"Where Are You?": Reading, Repositioning, and Imagining for Antiracist Futures
Patricia Enciso
Chapter 12
Socially Embodied Experience: An Explanatory Model for Literacy Based on Strangeness
James Paul Gee
Chapter 13
Performed Ethnography
Tara Goldstein
Chapter 14
Rich Points on a Reflexive Journey to Understanding Language–Literacy Relationships
Judith Green
Chapter 15
Rhizomatic Cartography of a Literate Life
Margaret Carmody Hagood
Chapter 16
Land, Language, and Learning: Living in Good Relations
Jan Hare
Chapter 17
Transmediation: Nurturing Imagination Through Abduction
Jerome C. Harste
Chapter 18Hybrid Spaces, Design, and Imagination in the Practice of Transformative Literacy Teacher Preparation: A Personal Journey
James Hoffman

Chapter 19Naturalizing Literacy: Finding Meaning in the Biology of Language, Thought, and Being
George G. Hruby
Chapter 20
Refusing and Accepting the Hail: Interpellation as a Personally Liberating Concept
Hilary Janks
Chapter 21
Memes and Meme-ing: Research and Meaning
Michele Knobel
Chapter 22
Virtual Shifts: Rethinking Literacies in Home and School
Linda Laidlaw
Chapter 23
Memes and Meme-ing: Rethinking Internet Memes for a Better Future
Colin Lankshear
Chapter 24
Agency and Assemblage in Children's Literacies
Kim Lenters
Chapter 25
Heteroglossia, Emotion, and the Transformation of Signs
Cynthia Lewis
Chapter 26
The Lyric of Witnessing and the Insight of Resonance
Rebecca Luce-Kapler
Chapter 27
Cultural Modeling on My Mind: Reframing Racialized Literacy Practices, and Reimagining Human Learning
Ramón Antonio Martínez
Chapter 28
Making Meaning, Making Sense
Guy Merchant
Chapter 29
Wahkohtowin: Reading, Writing, and Kinship
Lorri Neilsen Glenn
Chapter 30
Enacting Critical Race Parenting Through/With a Family Literacies Archive
Rebecca Rogers
Chapter 31
An Intellectual Path Paved With Emotions and Shaped by Cultures
Peter Smagorinsky
Chapter 32
Restorying My Archive of Deferrals
Dennis Sumara
Chapter 33
Going Public: Literacy Practices that Changed My Ideas
John Willinsky
Author Biographies
Index