Literacies in Times of Disruption

<p>The wide-ranging disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic altered the experiences of place technology time and school for students. This book explores how students’ responses to these extraordinary times shaped their identities as learners and writers as well as their perceptions of education.</p><p>This book traces the voices of a diverse group of university students from first-year to doctoral students over the first two years of the pandemic. Students discussed the effects of having their homes forced to serve as classrooms work and living spaces as they also navigated much of school and life through their digital screens. The affective and embodied experiences of this disruption and uncertainty and the memories and narratives constructed from those experiences challenged and remade students’ relationships with place digital media and school itself. Understanding students’ perceptions of these times has implications for imagining innovative and empathetic approaches to literacy and learning going forward.</p><p>In a time when disruptions including but not limited to the pandemic continue to ripple and resonate through education and culture this book provides important insights for researchers and teachers in literacy and writing studies education media studies and any seeking a better understanding of students and learning in this precarious age. </p><p><b>2025 recipient of the Divergent Publication Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research from the Initiative for Literacy in a Digital Age</b></p>