{"id":1669,"date":"2018-02-11T23:33:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T06:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2018-02-11T23:33:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T06:33:34","slug":"announcing-theory-into-practice-special-issue-on-multiliteracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1669","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Announcing Theory Into Practice Special Issue on Multiliteracies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"&quot;Hi wobot!&quot;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/33031489673\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2860\/33031489673_6f91a2cb2b_z.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Hi wobot!&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I am thrilled to share a recently published special issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/htip20\/current\"><em>Theory Into Practice<\/em><\/a> focusing on Twenty Years of Multiliteracies: Moving from Theory to Social Change in Literacies and Beyond. As a project that my co-editor Robyn Seglem and I started in 2016\u2013twenty years since The New London Group\u2019s seminal publication\u2014this issue brings together leaders across the field of education exploring how multiliteracies, pedagogy, and \u201csocial futures\u201d have shifted classroom practices and educational research.<\/p>\n<p>I describe a little bit more about what drove Robyn and I to pull this issue together below but, really, I encourage you to go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/htip20\/current\"><em>Theory Into Practice<\/em><\/a> page and dig into the amazing work of our contributors.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago, the ten members of the New London Group noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The changing technological and organizational shape of working life provides some with access to lifestyles of unprecedented affluence, while excluding others in ways that are increasingly related to the outcomes of education and training. It may well be that we have to rethink what we are teaching, and, in particular, what new learning needs literacy pedagogy might now address.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the 2016 Literacy Research Association annual conference, Allan Luke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s08Kr5N-_H8\">elaborated<\/a> that the conglomeration of technological advances with global power, competition, and neoliberalism have shattered the utopian possibilities of digital tools held by many during the turn of the century. Particularly considering the role of technology, oppression, and communication in this current moment of Trumpism, the articles in this issue point to specific opportunities for pedagogical innovation and new research pathways vis-\u00e0-vis multiliteracies scholarship. As Robyn and I write in our introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [T]he framework for \u201cdesigning social futures\u201d at the heart of this issue was written long before the existence of online social networks like YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. Technical advances from \u201csmart\u201d phones to internet-enabled thermostats, doorbells, and fitness trackers had not yet redefined our relationships to \u201cstuff\u201d at the time that multiliteracies outlined new modes of communication and understanding. Though advances in technology were still seen as central to the hopes of educational reform in the U.S. (Cuban, 1986), entire ways of interacting and communicating with one another and mediating the comfort of middle class lives did not exist. Similarly, Amazon, Uber, Warby Parker, Blue Apron, and myriad other companies did not reimagine new modes of commerce. In 1996, rather, media such as books, music, and VHS tapes were largely bought in malls; the ushering out of smaller mall-based bookshops like B. Dalton and Waldenbooks had not yet happened and larger shops like Barnes &amp; Noble were not the threat to mom and pop shops that today\u2019s eCommerce behemoths may be. New content was not yet downloaded (illicitly pilfered or paid for) from online sources.<\/p>\n<p>Illustrating the kinds of advances that we have seen in the years since the New London Group\u2019s publication, let us consider \u201cthe boy who lived\u201d: Harry Potter. In 1996, the first book in J.K. Rowling\u2019s Harry Potter book series was still a year away from being published. This publication, in turn, would not only get caught in the hearts of millions of readers (many impatiently awaiting magical owls bearing invitations that would somehow whisk them to their own wizarding school experiences) but would also redefine the markets for publishing young adult and children\u2019s literature. The powerful links between serialized novels, Hollywood adaptations, and books as portals for lucrative transmedia franchises was fully realized across the decade of Harry Potter novels that led to films, fan fiction, and even theme parks. The advances in technology that were in lock-step with the possibilities of mass-market profit were both suggested by and unable to be anticipated by the New London Group. Multiliteracies, in classrooms and in broader society, highlight how even liberatory possibilities of literacies&#8211;to reach new audiences and foment new voices&#8211;are often hemmed in by the auspices of those that wield societal power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are thrilled with the amazing contributions in this issue. I am pasting the table of contents below, but encourage you to visit the <em>Theory Into Practice<\/em> website to access the abstracts and full manuscripts for the entire issue. I hope you check these articles out!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00405841.2017.1411721\">This Issue<\/a> \u2013 Antero Garcia &amp; Robyn Seglem<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00405841.2017.1390332\">Pedagogies and Literacies, Disentangling the Historical Threads: An Interview with Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis<\/a> \u2013 Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, &amp; Anna Smith<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00405841.2017.1390336\">From Digital Consumption to Digital Invention: Toward a New Critical Theory and Practice of Multiliteracies<\/a> \u2013 Nicole Mirra, Ernest Morrell, and Danielle Filipiak<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00405841.2017.1390334\">Multiplicities in Motion: A Turn to Transliteracies<\/a> &#8211; Anna Smith,\u00a0Amy Stornaiuolo\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Nathan C. Phillips<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00405841.2017.1390331\">Design, Desire, and Difference<\/a> \u2013 Kevin M. Leander &amp; Gail Boldt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00405841.2017.1392164\">Centering Nepantla Literacies from the Borderlands: Leveraging \u201cIn-Betweenness\u201d Toward Learning in the Everyday<\/a> &#8211; Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Liz\u00e1rraga\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Kris D. Guti\u00e9rrez<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00405841.2017.1392202\">Multiliteracies in Practice: Integrating Multimodal Production Across the Curriculum<\/a> &#8211; Patricia Thibaut\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Jen Scott Curwood<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00405841.2017.1390335\">Changing Literacies and Civic Pathways: Multiliteracies in Inquiry-Driven Classrooms<\/a> \u2013 Robyn Seglem &amp; Antero Garcia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00405841.2017.1411715\">From Designing to Organizing New Social Futures: Multiliteracies Pedagogies for Today<\/a> \u2013 William R. 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