Metanarratives of Literacy Practices: Libraries as Sponsors of Literacies

Presented by Buffy J. Hamilton, Ed.S.
February 2014
Colorado State University
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Defining
Brandt’s
“sponsors of
literacy”

Questions
and
Implications
for Libraries

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Libraries as
Sponsors of
Literacy:
Emerging
Practices
and
Possibilities

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Theory Informs
Practice

Practice
Informs Theory

Sponsors of
Literacy

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Any agent, local or distant, concrete or
abstract, who…

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Brandt views literacy as a “valuable—and volatile property”
that can potentially help individuals gain (or deny)“…power or
pleasure, [accrue] information, civil rights, education,
spirituality, status, [and] money.”

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Sponsors of literacy are the

around literacy
Dr. Deborah Brandt,
Literacy and Learning, Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society
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and the source of
and

that grow up
around it

Dr. Deborah Brandt,
Literacy and Learning, Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society
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“as new and powerful forms of literacy emerge, they diminish
the reach and possibilities of receding ones… forms of literacy
can now rise and recede many times within a single life
span…this phenomenon is what makes today’s literacy feel so
advanced and, at the same time, so destabilized.”


Dr. Deborah Brandt

examination of a person’s literacy sponsors “…exposes
the deeply textured history that lies within the literacy
practices of institutions and within any individuals’
literacy experiences.”

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“Accumulated layers of sponsoring influences—in
families, workplaces, schools, memory—carry forms of
literacy that have been shaped out of ideological and
economic struggles of the past”

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sponsors of literacy=Bakhtin’s “living dialogic threads
woven by socio-ideological consciousness around the
given object of the utterance”

Bakhtin, M. (1981). "Discourse in the novel. In The Dialogic Imagination: Four essays by M.M.
Bakhtin" (pp. 259-422). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
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Deborah Brandt

“We have to make sure
schools and libraries
invite critical and active
uses of media that
strengthen our
democratic
potential.”
Dr. Deborah Brandt


“this means that our democratic institutions
(schools and

libraries particularly) have to

work hard and

thoughtfully to

mitigate these forces.”
Deborah Brandt


Brandt’s Lines of Inquiry

How is the access,
organization, and
privileging of literacy
opportunities impacted by
issues related to race, class,
and gender?


How might sponsors of
literacy interpret their
ability to provide
resources and
opportunities that help
people transform their
uses of literacy that
facilitate identity
development, agency and
social mobility?


How do literacy sponsors
contribute to what Brandt
defines as the literacy
crisis: the perceived gap
between rising standards
for achievement and
people’s ability to meet
them?

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relatively low barriers to

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one’s creations with others
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fluidity in the roles
of


with one another

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members believe their

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participation is

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conversations and participation mean

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communities formed around…

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Connected
Learning

Source: http://dmlhub.net/sites/default/files/ConnectedLearning_report.pdf
Ito, Mizuko, Kris Gutiérrez, Sonia Livingstone, Bill Penuel, Jean Rhodes, Katie Salen, Juliet Schor, Julian Sefton-Green, S. Craig Watkins. 2013. Connected Learning: An Agenda for
Research and Design. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub.

Staffing
Collection
Teaching
and
Learning
Facilities

Marketing
and Web
Presence

are the cornerstone of libraries and participation
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library is the shared story of the

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how do we disrupt dominant literacy
practices?

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yet honor the responsibility of scaffolding
people’s access to the kinds of cultural capital
they need to succeed academically and
economically without sacrificing their identity
or sense of personal agency?
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If libraries aspire to
“…nourish new kinds of
knowledge producers,
social innovators, and
citizens who establish
alternative paths to
opportunity and social
mobility” (Watkins),
libraries must continually
be aware of the ways they
function as sponsors of
multiple forms of literacy
through regular action
and reflection.

As writing rises in
prominence as the
“literate experience of the
consequence”, how will
this impact or reposition
reading literacy?
What are the implications
for libraries that have
traditionally privileged
reading literacy?
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New Media Literacies

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Making and Creating as “Composing”

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Inquiry Stance of Multiple Literacies

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Participatory
Culture

Metanarratives
of Learning
Library as
Human
Experience

Literacy as
Lifelong Process

Libraries as
Potentially One
Constant Site of
Literacy
Opportunities

nuances of learning and literacy narratives of a
particular library can illuminate the ways that
library serves as a sponsor of literacy and provide
the library meaningful data to
think about pivot points
for change to support
equitable and
participatory
ecologies of
learning

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Radnor Public Library Lego Club

• Met once a month; popularity has resulted
in demand for more meetings
• Toddlers to teens
• Each meeting has a theme; each meeting
lasts approximately 90 minutes
Source: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6666669.html

Always In Stitches at Abington Community
Library
Source: http://www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/?p=6444

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Learn ore at https://barrowmediacenter.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/3rd-grade-kinetic-sculptures-with-tinkercadmakerbot-collaboration-and-imagination/

Read more at http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/idea-box-draws-community-to.html and
http://www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/?p=5025

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Learn more: http://prairiecreeklibrary.blogspot.com/2012/10/studio-you.html

Learn more: http://csedweek.org/

Learn more: http://gwinnett.libguides.com/twitterchat-russell

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Source: http://bornbraveyoumedia.tumblr.com/

Source: http://www.saclibrary.org/?pageId=1599

Sources: http://www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/?p=3856 and

The Idea Box at Oak Park Library

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The Idea Box at Oak Park Library

“Other artists from the
community have come in
and wanted to participate. It
has been a really interesting
talking point with patrons.”

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Instructional
Role

Management
of STUFF

Media specialists as instructional
designers and learning architects who
help provide diverse entry points to
learning for all students.

empower

align

transform

Practices with library mission and
school strategic plan
The Third Teacher. "Hack Class: Shape Your Ecology, Empower Learning at SXSWedu 2013." Hack Class: Shape Your Ecology, Empower Learning at
SXSWedu 2013. SlideShare, 7 Mar. 2013. Web. 06 May 2013. <http://www.slideshare.net/thethirdteacher/hac-kclass-tttpresov1>.

Creating a culture of curiosity,
questioning, problem solving, and
participation.

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DMLCentral

http://dmlcentral.net/blog/5238

References/Works Cited
Brandt, Deborah. Literacy and Learning: Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2009. Print.
Brandt, Deborah. Literacy in American Lives. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. Print.
Brandt, Deborah. The Sponsors of Literacy. Rep. no. 7.12. National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement, 1997. Web. 7 Oct.
2013. <http://www.albany.edu/cela/reports/brandtsponsors10001.pdf>.
Connected Learning. "Kris Gutierrez & Bill Penuel - Assessing Connected Learning Outcomes | Connected Learning." Kris Gutierrez & Bill
Penuel - Assessing Connected Learning Outcomes | Connected Learning. N.p., 14 Feb. 2013. Web. 17 July 2013.
<http://connectedlearning.tv/kris-gutierrez-bill-penuel-assessing-connected-learning-outcomes>.
Hamilton, Buffy J. "Sponsors of Literacy in Contemporary Culture: An E-Interview with Dr. Deborah Brandt." The Unquiet Librarian.
Wordpress, 25 Mar. 2010. Web. 09 Feb. 2014. <http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/sponsors-of-literacy-in-contemporaryculture-an-e-interview-with-dr-deborah-brandt/>.
Hull, Glynda A., Larry Mikulecky, Ralf St. Clair, and Sandra Kerka. "Multiple Literacies: A Compilation for Adult Educators." California Adult
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Lankes, David. "Welcome." The Atlas of New Librarianship. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Oct. 2013. <http://www.newlibrarianship.org/wordpress/>.
Orobkova, Ksenia, and Matt Rafalow. "On Schools, Sackboys, and Sponsors: A Tale of Two Online Communities." Web Log Post. Connected
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Short, Kathy. "2014 Call for Proposals: Story as the Landscape of Knowing." National Council of Teachers of English. N.p., Nov. 2013. Web. 03
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Trethewey, Natasha D. Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Athens: University of Georgia, 2010. Kindle.
Watkins, S. Craig. "Rethinking the ‘Race Between Education and Technology’ Thesis." Web log post. DMLcentral. N.p., 2 Dec. 2013. Web. 03
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Watkins, S. Craig. "Why Critical Design Literacy Is Needed Now More Than Ever." Web log post. DMLcentral. N.p., 1 May 2012. Web. 17 July
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