Art as a Way of Listening

Amanda Claudia Wager is Canada Research Chair in Community-Engaged Research and Professor of Education at Vancouver Island University, Canada. Berta Rosa Berriz is Professor Emerita of Creative Arts and Learning at the Graduate School of Education at Lesley University, USA. Laura Ann Cranmer is a Professor of Indigenous / Xwulmuxw Studies at Vancouver Island University, Canada. Vivian Maria Poey is Professor of Photography and Integrated Studies at Lesley University, USA.

Opening Call: Indigenous creation—Literature as Historical/Cultural Recovery Introduction: Language Reawakening as Pilgrimage—Stepping Back and Stitching Hope Part I: Roots They ARE listening 1 A Colorful Language: Playback Theater as a Way of Listening with Youth in Palestine 2 Education Beyond Walls: Using the Arts to Awaken an Endangered Language 3 Enacting Language Reclamation through Performance as Embodied Praxis 4 The Kuleana of Ulana Lauhala: Reflecting on Our Weaving 5 Zapotec Youth Visualizing their Language: Using Cellphilm and Visual Methods to Support Language Revitalization 6 Digital Language Kinscapes: Twitter-based Pedagogical Possibilities for Indigenous Youth Language Learning in Canada Our languages hold the Pulsing Hearts of Our Cultures: Questions for Reflection and Further Applications for Practice Part II: Routes Step Back, Leap Forward 7 Reimagining Language Curriculum: Black Language and Literacy Education Through Hip Hop and Rap Inclusion 8 The Complexities of Chinese Children’s Meaning-Making Revealed Through Artistic Practices, Talk, and Social Interaction 9 My Storytelling Journey: From Rural Settings in Haiti to Urban Settings in New England 10 Identity, Voices, and Agency of Asian Female Graduate Students Through Visual Self-Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Study of Art, Literacy, and Language 11 ITS: Identity, Technology and Storytelling 12 Making Meaning Hear Me, Tell My Story: Questions for Reflection and Further Applications for Practice Afterword: The Kwakwaka'wakw art of Kota – Rooted in Cultural Traditions, Re-Routed to Language Reawakening