Hobson Chart Situated Literacies Discussion, Day Two, 7.8.13

Sarah’s Demo

Discussion of Situated Literacies, by Barton and Hamilton

1.     Describe your reaction to this article?

2.     What stands out to you from this article?

3.     What questions does this article raise?

4.     Pair and share and make a group list of all of the things that Barton and Hamilton say literacy is and that it is connected to.  Share and discuss.

Literacy

What literacy is connected to

5.     Pull an example of literacy at work from your autobiography.  Find a domain you address in your autobiography and create a chart or visual that describes the event and the literacy practices in that event.  That describes the ways that literacy practices were shaping that event or the ways that the event was shaping the literacy practices.

Situated Literacies, Barton and Hamilton (2000)

Literacy

What it is connected to

Home discussions with family tv watchers, readers, magazine owners learning what is acceptable or not Mom:  Guidepost--faith and the Bible Dad:  had music Marissa and brother read a lot listening, the Good Book says, quoting still modeling:  you will get a good education, school is important, books are important scripture translating into social practices?  Brother converted to Judaism certain translations of the Bible as the social practices Discourse communities the ways that families speak vernacular differences code switching content differences:  intellectual things, gossipy things Dad’s music shaped the way that Marissa’s family spoke to each other Mommy Dear Family language Academic language Personal language School language Baby talk:  positioning ourselves and positioning other people; assumptions we make about people and their social needs and practices Literacy event focused on a text discussing text social situation permeability of boundaries overlaps of different domains talking about this text surfaces those differences, those different ways of understanding a text in this event, we shared our reactions, surfaced similarities and differences, we confirmed and constructed meaning together Media and media messages gender divisions of labor texts can project images of social relationships that we are sold Semiotic systems math, musical notations, maps, other digital texts, art reading multiple sign systems and how they relate to make meaning from a text body language, sarcasm, emoticons Social practices social conventions: we are bred with certain ways to speak, behave, address issues or people comes from your family, from texts, from role models the way to be socially, how we organize ourselves, social structures changing social practices and conventions is about changing allegiances literate about social practices so that kids can assimilate Cultural practices white cultures, black cultures, female cultures, upstate cultures, religious everywhere you look, different parts of the country family practices:  mean and ugly to each other economic differences white cultures in suburbs that can’t understand what it’s like to be poor,  black where you shop shapes cultural practices and identities differences in resources in different communities labeling ourselves and others labeling of social groups social status Historical practices Social context Institutions education, religious how institutions support and sustain or impeded literacy events or discourse communities Literacy as a social construct Race as a social construct Class as a social construct Literacy practices the notion of literacy practices offers a powerful way differentiating the activities of reading and writing and the social structures in which they are embedded and which they help shape show power creating boundaries and barriers showing where you belong what people do with literacy: what do you do with written language; becoming literate in something to grow, change, evolve, exclude general cultural ways of using written language which people draw upon our values, feelings, attitudes, social relationships evaluating, understanding, interpreting, synthesizing Literacy and power