TIME TRAVELS IN LITERACY AND PEDAGOGY

This co-edited book was one of those rare opportunities to work with truly collegiate, collaborative colleagues who share interests. Cathy and Guy have both been super kind to me, creating opportunities for me to develop new skills as an editor. this project also created time and space for an exchange of ideas. I'm really proud of the chapter I wrote with Nadia and Lucy too. I think what might be of interest to researchers in the field of literacies, is the use of the multi-Literacies pedagogies framework, as a tool for analysis of a set of learning resources. As the title implies, the focus was on a set of resources to support media production inspired by Dr who. What we found was that the resources were really rich in ideas to support traditional literacy (writing) but less focused on enabling children to create moving image or sound. I still think both the learning resources and our analysis have a value.

Perhaps we should hijack the TARDIS and fast forward to a place where time is made for children to examine these cultural resources, not as a quick fix of fun to sugar the curriculum pill, but as content of value in its own right as a piece of children’s television and an aspect of children’s shared cultural lives.

Parry B Haerizadeh-Yazdi N & Taylor L (2016) Time Travels in Literacy and Pedagogy: From Script to Screen In Parry B, Burnett C & Merchant G (Eds.), Literacy, Media, Technology Past, Present and Future. London: Bloomsbury Academic.