Time and Space in Literacy Research [Paperback]

Literacy researchers interested in how specific sites of learning situate students and the ways they make sense of their worlds are asking new questions and thinking in new ways about how time and space operate as contextual dimensions in the learning lives of students, teachers, and families. These investigations inform questions related to history, identity, methodology, in-school and out-of school spaces, and local/global literacies. An engaging blend of methodological, theoretical, and empirical work featuring well-known researchers on the topic, this book provides a conceptual framework for extending existing conceptions of context and provides unique and ground-breaking examples of empirical research.

Foreword: Allan Luke

Introduction: Conceptualizing Past, Present, and Future Timespaces

Section 1: Timespaces and the Past in Literacy Research

Introduction

Chapter 1: Thank You, Mrs. Whitehouse: The Memory Work of One Student about His High School English Teacher, Forty Years Later

Johnny Salda?a

Chapter 2: Invoking Modalities of Memory in the Writing Classroom

Juan C. Guerra

Chapter 3: Its about Living Your Life : Family Time and School Time as a Resource for Meaning Making in Homes, Schools and Communities

Kate Pahl

Chapter 4: Uses of Collective Memories in Classrooms for Constructing and Taking Up Learning Opportunities

Margaret Grigorenko, Marlene Beierle, & David Bloome

Section 2: Timespaces and the Present in Literacy Research

Introduction

Chapter 5: Write on Time! The Role of Timescales in Defining and Disciplining Young Writers

Lorraine Falchi & Marjorie Siegel

Chapter 6: How Moments (and Spaces) Add up to Lives: Queer and Alse