NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

Friday, November 30, 2018 — 7:15 to 8:15 a.m.

LRA Conference, Indian Wells, California

Title: Re-Theorizing Literacy Practices – Centering Personhood

Presenter: Dr. David Bloome

Session Chairs: Catherine Compton-Lilly and Gerald Campano

Over the past four decades, the construct of literacy practices has been re-theorized multiple times in multiple ways. This talk reviews some of the ways that the construct of literacy practices has been (and continues to be) re-theorized arguing that what is at stake in past and current re-theorizing concerns personhood. Defined as how the construct of “person” is diversely conceptualized, I argue that whether explicit or implicit in the re-theorizing of literacy practices is an ongoing exploration and debate about personhood. What’s at stake, therefore, is less about what and how people use written language, and more so about how personhood might be taken up.

This session features a respected voice on research in the area of literacy education. In this session, we hope to engage in a conversation on the impact to literacy education as a foundation for considering academic and empirical next steps.

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Dr. David Bloome is the EHE Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning in the School of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology. He is the director of the Center for Video Ethnography and Discourse Analysis of the School of Teaching and Learning and co-director of the Columbus Area Writing Project.