Joy Amid Ruin: More-than-human Literacies for Survival.

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Title: Joy Amid Ruin: More-than-human Literacies for Survival.
Authors: WALISZEWSKA, ALEKSANDRA1
Source: Language & Literacy: A Canadian Educational E-Journal. 2025, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p175-193. 19p.
Subject Terms: *Inquiry method (Teaching), *Graduate students, *Literacy education, Climate change, Blogs
Abstract: In this paper, I reflect on the past decade as an educator and graduate student to highlight the joy that accompanied my shifting understanding of literacy. I conducted an autobiographical narrative inquiry and used selections from blog entries and graduate coursework in order to reflect on my "moments of turning". I begin with a logocentric understanding of literacy as a white settler in two Indigenous communities, but over time embrace a multimodal, embodied, emergent, place-based, and more-than-human conception of literacies within a context of the climate and nature emergency. This conception learns from and with Indigenous ways of knowing rooted in ecology, relationships, and the land. I argue that this understanding of literacies brings joy and opens possibilities in a precarious world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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