Abstracts
Abstract
This research investigated potentials of bilingual digital story making to engage the creativity of 13 Canadian and Chinese biliteracy learners aged 11–15. Findings in this paper draw on six focal participants and their digital story creation. Informed by asset-oriented multiliteracies, new media literacies, and new materialism, this research adopted a netnography methodology to explore the communal and sociomaterial practices embedded in the intra-actions of human, matter, and virtual spaces of Seesaw and Skype. Drawing on data from six focal students, findings relate how intra-actions among researchers, teachers, students, matters, and spaces shaped participants’ creative acts. This research adds to the knowledge of developing and applying material-informed pedagogies which attend to the enacted agency among teachers, students, materials, and spaces.
Keywords:
- New Materialism,
- curriculum,
- multiliteracies,
- biliteracy,
- bilingual education
Résumé
Cette recherche a examiné les potentiels de la création d'histoires numériques bilingues pour engager la créativité de 13 apprenants bilingues canadiens et chinois âgés de 11 à 15 ans. Les conclusions de cet article sont soutenues par six participants principaux et leur création d'histoires numériques. Informée par les multilittératies axées sur les actifs, les nouvelles connaissances médiatiques et le nouveau matérialisme, cette recherche a adopté une méthodologie de netnographie afin d’explorer les pratiques communautaires et sociomatérielles intégrées dans les intra-actions des espaces humains, matériels et virtuels de Seesaw et Skype. En s’appuyant sur les données de six étudiants cibles, les résultats décrivent comment les intra-actions entre les chercheurs, les enseignants, les étudiants, les matières et les espaces ont façonné les actes créatifs des participants. Cette recherche s’ajoute à la connaissance du développement et de l’application de pédagogies fondées sur le matériel qui soutiennent l’action mise en oeuvre parmi les enseignants, les étudiants, les matériaux et les espaces.
Mots-clés :
- nouveau matérialisme,
- Éducation bilingue,
- curriculum,
- multilittératies,
- bilittératie
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