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De/constructing Literacies: Considerations for Engagement reviews and defines the concept of engagement in literacy studies from different epistemologies. Well-suited for literacy researchers and graduate students, it considers the foundations of arts-based research, cognitive psychology, ethnography, phenomenology, posthumanism, with a final chapter on walking methodologies, to better understand how engagement can be framed and looked at in literacy studies.
List of contents
List of Figures - Introduction - Literacies as Engrenages or How Phenomenological Hermeneutics Impact Literacy Studies - De/constructing Reading Engagement - Illustrating Reading Engagement: Indicators, Meaning-Making, and Beyond - Mapping Reactions across Students: Engagement Tendencies - Community-Oriented Literacies and the Place of Materiality - Index.
About the author
Amélie Lemieux is Assistant Professor of Literacy and Technology at Mount Saint Vincent University. A Lieutenant-Governor¿s Medal Recipient and TedX speaker, Lemieux's research extends an expansive view of literacy informed by multidimensional epistemologies that combine digital literacy and the arts.
Report
"De/constructing Literacies: Considerations for Engagement is a fascinating book that challenges educators to rethink the role that aesthetic experiences play with/in student engagement. Lemieux's conceptualization of reading as a phenomenologically-oriented and posthumanely-driven encounter is both fresh and provocative, as it invites us to imagine not only what a more ethically engaged conception of affective engagement is, but also, what it could be(come)."-Bessie Dernikos, Florida Atlantic University
