Biliteracy Learners’ Enacted Agency in Digital Storytelling: Creativity in a Cross-Border, Online, Emergent, Biliteracy Curriculum

Authors

  • Zheng Zhang Western University
  • Wanjing Li Western University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-4467.40570

Keywords:

curriculum, emergent curriculum, biliteracy, learners' enacted agency, digital storytelling, creativity, online study, cross-border education, transnational education

Abstract

This research investigated potentials of bilingual digital story-making for engaging creativity in Canadian biliteracy learners (i.e., learners in Canada who speak their heritage language of Mandarin but are more fluent in English) and Chinese biliteracy learners (i.e., learners in China who are fluent in Mandarin and learning English as a foreign language). Informed by asset-oriented multiliteracies, new media literacies and new materialism, this research adopted an ethnography methodology to explore the communal and socio-material practices embedded in the intra-actions of human, matter and virtual spaces of Seesaw and Skype. Drawing on various data about six focal students, findings show how the intra-actions among researchers, teachers, students, materials and spaces shaped the participants’ creative acts. This research adds to the literature about developing and applying pedagogies that attend to the enacted agency among teachers, students, materials and spaces in processes of creative meaning making.

Author Biographies

Zheng Zhang, Western University

Zheng Zhang, PhD, is an associate professor, Faculty of Education, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; e-mail: zzhan58@uwo.ca. Her research interests include academic writing in English, literacy and biliteracy education in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, and curricular studies of international education and transnational education.

Wanjing Li, Western University

Wanjing Li, is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; e-mail: wli466@uwo.ca. Her research interests span curriculum studies, literacies, and international and transnational education. They are informed by multiliteracies and new materialism, particularly studies in transnational curricula in culturally and linguistically diverse school settings.

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Published

27-06-2020

How to Cite

Zhang, Z., & Li, W. (2020). Biliteracy Learners’ Enacted Agency in Digital Storytelling: Creativity in a Cross-Border, Online, Emergent, Biliteracy Curriculum. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 18(1), 66–67. https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-4467.40570

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Identities and Agency