Expanding Literacies in Education
About the Book Series
The Expanding Literacies in Education Series features books that highlight the changing landscape and explore new directions and theoretical tools in literacy studies as it is transforming education—including material, embodied, affective, and global emphases; digital and virtual worlds; and transcultural and cosmopolitan spaces. Some books in the series locate emerging literacies in practices that extend or trouble their historical uses and functions. Others cross disciplinary borders, bringing new epistemologies to bear on evolving practices that question the very foundations of literacy scholarship. Polemical and forward-looking, encompassing public and vernacular pedagogies as well as formal education, these books engage researchers, graduate students, and teacher educators with new and emerging theoretical approaches to literacy practices in all of their complexities, challenges, and possibilities.
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Understanding Second Language Users as Gamers: Language as Victory
1st Edition
Edited
By Raúl Alberto Mora
December 22, 2025
Featuring #TeamLaV from the Literacies in Second Languages Project. This volume documents how gamers use second languages in games and gaming communities, and how gaming interacts with literacy and language learning. Grounded in an innovative longitudinal research study involving gamers not only as...
Language, Place, and the Body in Childhood Literacies: Theory, Practice, and Social Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Khawla Badwan, Ruth Churchill Dower, Warda Farah, Rosie Flewitt, Abigail Hackett, Rachel Holmes, Christina MacRae, Vishnu KK Nair, David Ben Shannon
August 21, 2025
Challenging dominant views of early childhood language development and knowledge, this thought-provoking volume illuminates the importance of place, the body, and movement in opening space for young children’s improvisatory, creative, playful language practices. Bringing together a rich collection ...
Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities
1st Edition
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By T. Philip Nichols, Antero Garcia
June 26, 2025
As digital platforms become increasingly common and even the norm for literacy learning environments, established frameworks, pedagogies, and theories do not always translate neatly to these new contexts. This edited volume explores the complex relationship between digital platforms and literacies,...
Pluriversal Literacies for Sustainable Futures: When Words Are Not Enough
1st Edition
By Mia Perry
July 28, 2023
This book presents a new vision of literacy that frames meaning-making and communication in relation to individual, collective, and ecological needs. Building on the concept of the pluriversal, Perry explores how literacy education can support multiple ways of being and becoming. In so doing, Perry...
Literacy and Identity Through Streaming Media: Kids, Teens, and Representation on Netflix
1st Edition
By Damiana Gibbons Pyles
May 09, 2023
In this book, Damiana Gibbons Pyles guides readers through the fast-changing landscape of digital streaming services such as Netflix and explores their impact on children’s and teens’ identities. Children interact with streaming media in novel, hidden, and unforeseen ways that shape their digital, ...
Playful Methods: Engaging the Unexpected in Literacy Research
1st Edition
By Carmen Liliana Medina, Mia Perry, Karen Wohlwend
May 11, 2022
This book introduces three new subjects to the context of literacy research—play, the imaginary, and improvisation—and proposes how to incorporate these important concepts into the field as research methods in order to engage people, materials, spaces, and imaginaries that are inherent in every ...
Black Girls' Literacies: Transforming Lives and Literacy Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Detra Price-Dennis, Gholnecsar E. Muhammad
June 23, 2021
Bringing together the voices of leading and emerging scholars, this volume highlights the many facets of Black girls’ literacies. As a comprehensive survey of the research, theories, and practices that highlight the literacies of Black girls and women in diverse spaces, the text addresses how ...
Literacies that Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods
1st Edition
By Karen Wohlwend
July 15, 2020
Expanding the definition and use of literacies beyond verbal and written communication, this book examines contemporary literacies through action-focused analysis of bodies, places, and media. Nexus analysis examines how people enact and mobilize meanings that are largely unspoken. Wohlwend ...
Affect in Literacy Learning and Teaching: Pedagogies, Politics and Coming to Know
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Leander, Christian Ehret
February 14, 2019
In this cutting-edge volume, scholars from around the world connect affect theory to the field of literacy studies and unpack the role and influence of this emerging area of scholarship on literacy education. Offering an introduction to affect theory and scholarship as it relates to literacy ...
Exploring Critical Digital Literacy Practices: Everyday Video in a Dual Language Context
1st Edition
By Jessica Zacher Pandya
July 16, 2018
In this book, Jessica Zacher Pandya examines the everyday videomaking practices of students in a dual language, under-resourced school in order to explore the ways children interrogate their worlds, the kinds of identities they craft, and the language and literacy learning practices that emerge ...
Posthumanism and Literacy Education: Knowing/Becoming/Doing Literacies
1st Edition
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By Candace Kuby, Karen Spector, Jaye Johnson Thiel
July 16, 2018
Covering key terms and concepts in the emerging field of posthumanism and literacy education, this volume investigates posthumanism, not as a lofty theory, but as a materialized way of knowing/becoming/doing the world. The contributors explore the ways that posthumanism helps educators better ...
Community Literacies as Shared Resources for Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanne Larson, George H. Moses
December 05, 2017
Through multiple narratives reflecting the complexity of participatory action research partnerships for social justice, this book sheds light on the dialogic spaces that intentionally support community literacies and rhetorical practices for inquiry and change. Applying literacy as social practice,...