Learning to write together

ISBN-13: 9783639135169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 344 str.

Juan Manuel Fernndez-Crdenas

Opis

The use of ICT has transformed the traditionalconcept of literacy in education. However,educational agents seem to be struggling to makeadjustments to match the emergence of new socialpractices in classrooms with rules privileging theuse of conventional texts. Hence, this book providesa rich description of the challenges that arecurrently faced by teachers and students forinterpreting and producing school texts. This goal isachieved using qualitative methodologies informed byVygotskian sociocultural theory and differentapproaches to discourse analysis. The discussionpresented focuses on the re-conceptualization oflearning in terms of goal-oriented situated actions.In this respect, a series of studies describe thestrategies used by primary school children forconstructing electronic multimodal texts, and inparticular for constructing Web pages collaborativelywith historical themes. The analysis contributes withoriginality to understand new literacy practices inschools and should be especially useful forresearchers, teachers, and policy makers searchingfor sound theoretical models and their application torecently identified educational situations.

O autorze

Juan Manuel Fernández Cárdenas holds a PhD in Language and
Education from The Open University in the United Kingdom, and a
BSc in Psychology from the National University of Mexico (UNAM).
He works as a researcher at CRN-UNESCO and as a lecturer at UANL
in Monterrey, Mexico. He is also a member of the National System
of Researchers in Mexico.