Table of Contents

Contributors

Chapter 1. Margaret R. Hawkins: Global StoryBridges: Being and Becoming

Chapter 2. Emilee Moore, Claudia Vallejo Rubinstein, Júlia Llompart-Esbert & Miaomiao Zhang: Building Scalar Frames of Understandability in ‘Trans’ Practices within a Catalan Global StoryBridges Site

Chapter 3. Anneliese Cannon & Sarah J. Turner: Cosmopolitan Aims/Cosmopolitan Realities: How Immigrant Youth Negotiate Languaging and Identity in One After-School Program

Chapter 4. Rui Li & Feng Jiayu: A Place-Based Critical Transmodal Analysis of Chinese Youth’s Digital Storytelling

Chapter 5. Willy Ngaka: Transnational Transmodal Terrain: Perspectives from Ugandan Lugbara Youth

Chapter 6. Gordon B. West, Bingjie Zheng & Trang D. Tran: Youth Transmodally Indexing Social Discourses: A Vietnam Video Narrative Analysis

Chapter 7. Sara J. Goldberg & Sarah Nazziwa: Critical Cosmopolitanism and Sustainable Education: Primary Educator Perspectives from Uganda and the United States

Chapter 8. Mario E. López-Gopar, Vilma Huerta Cordova, William M. Sughrua and Edwin Nazaret León Jiménez: Developing Decolonizing Pedagogies with Mexican Pre-Service 'English' Teachers

Chapter 9. Patricia Ratanapraphart, Lisa Velarde, Nikhil M. Tiwari and Suman Barua: Positionality Revisited: A Critical Examination of Meaning-Making and Collaboration in a Transnational Research Team

Chapter 10. Li Wei: Coda

Index

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Chapters introduce groundbreaking research on interactions across diverse spaces and language/cultural groups

About the Author

Margaret R. Hawkins is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her work focuses on languages, literacies and learning across classroom, home and community-based settings in local and global contexts. As a community-engaged scholar she has worked with schools, communities, community organizations and institutions of higher education around the world. Her current focus is exploring semiotics and relations in transmodal communications. She is the recipient of the Leadership Through Research Award from the Second Language Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association (2019) and the Erwin Zolt Digital Literacy Gamechanger Award from the International Literacy Association (2019).

Reviews

In multiple case studies from the Global StoryBridges research project, this book demonstrates how young people encounter and make sense of each other, and navigate difference within and across distance and diversity. It is essential reading for anyone engaged in teaching or researching social justice in transglobal contexts.
*Adrian Blackledge, University of Stirling, UK*

Transnational social relations are an emergent concern in diverse disciplines, yet without paradigms that go beyond traditional methodological nationalism. This book proposes critical cosmopolitanism to demonstrate the value of translingual and transmodal interactions in transforming positionalities of global citizens. It is invaluable for developing the constructs that facilitate transnational research and pedagogies.
*Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, USA*