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Propose the conceptual heuristic of 'literacy-as-event' to integrate relational thinking into literacy research and capture the fluid nature of meaning-making.

April 6, 2018Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

Literacy-as-event: accounting for relationality in literacy research

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CBCathy BurnettLandstuhl Regional Medical Center GMGuy MerchantBrock University

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Theoretical analysis uncovers the conceptual framework of literacy-as-event in educational scholarship, highlighting how relational encounters shape expansive meaning-making.

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Propose the conceptual heuristic of 'literacy-as-event' to integrate relational thinking into literacy research and capture the fluid nature of meaning-making.
Synthesized New Literacy Studies sociocultural frameworks with relational philosophies linking human and more-than-human agents.
Formulated three conceptual propositions addressing relational emergence, perceptual excess, and latent potentialities within literacy practices.
Established that literacy events are actively generated through evolving relations between people, physical spaces, and material artifacts.
Determined that literacy events consistently exceed predetermined cognitive boundaries and harbor multiple unscripted potentialities for inquiry.

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Burnett et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a094b0016dfdfe7ed33f80c https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2018.1460318

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Theoretical analysis uncovers the conceptual framework of literacy-as-event in educational scholarship, highlighting how relational encounters shape expansive meaning-making.

Literacy-as-event: accounting for relationality in literacy research

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Literacy-as-event: accounting for relationality in literacy research

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