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Wrestling With Competency And Everyday Literacies In School, Kortney Sherbine
Wrestling With Competency And Everyday Literacies In School, Kortney Sherbine
Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications
In this essay, I detail the entanglements of three young Black boys - Million Dollar Man, DJ, and Francisco - and their interests in and experiences with WWE wrestling. Drawing on posthumanist philosophies that attend to the productive relationships between the human and more-than-human objects, I consider ethnographic data composed during a second-grade literacy workshop to describe the ways in which the boys' talk, play, embodiments, drawing, and writing created new ways for them to demonstrate competencies in school. A rhizoanalysis of field notes, audio and video recordings, and artifactual documentation demonstrates the overlapping and diverging traditional and indeterminate literacies …
Track Star + Thing Power: Be[Com]Ing In The Literacy Workshop, Kortney Sherbine
Track Star + Thing Power: Be[Com]Ing In The Literacy Workshop, Kortney Sherbine
Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications
This paper explores the intra-actions between and assemblages among classroom materials, a teacher's chair and a seven-year-old boy during a second grade literacy workshop. I consider the ways in which the relationships between the human and more-than-human produced multiple ways of being and, in particular, new modes of competence for a child whose classroom literacy practices were often considered illegitimate or unremarkable. Drawing on posthumanist and more-than-human philosophies of difference, I suggest that the child's affective relationships with materials and his teacher's willingness to engage in a nomadic pedagogy produced new opportunities for him to experience and demonstrate his literate …