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8/4/2019 Collaborative Literacy
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Collaborative Literacy
Robyn Richardson, MFA Design Management Candidate, Savannah College of Art and Design, [email protected]
At a time when collaboration is quickly commanding the practice of creative industries, individuals are
expected to perform at an efficient level of cooperative production. There is a need, however, to inform these
practices with a language and knowledge of collaboration as a social practice and negotiated experience.
With this in mind, this paper proposes that collaboration should be taught and negotiated from an individual
perspective of "collaborative literacy." Informed by Keith Sawyer's ten conditions for group flow and Etienne
Wenger's theory of social identities in communities of practice, this paper aims to synthesize these ideas to a
foundation for teaching collaborative literacy as first, a language, and second, a skill set. Building on existing
theories of literacy, i.e., visual literacy, literacy of ecologies, etc., this paper will coin "collaborative literacy"
as a practice that begins with shared reading and understanding of symbols and signs that exist within the
collaboration experience and expand to synthesis and manipulation of these characteristics to inform personal
collaborative practice. In teaching collaborative literacy as a skill, those who engage in its practice will be
better prepared to capitalize and share the opportunities afforded by collaboration- both personally and
professionally.
Proposed Length of Paper: 15 pages