Grounded Literacy

ISBN-13: 9783639168976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 264 str.

John Hodgson

Opis

Recent years have seen enormous interest in thenature of literacy within modern societies. Severalstudies have focused on the literacy practices ofyoung children, but detailed longitudinal work withadolescents is relatively rare. This book attemptsto understand the nature of young peoples literacythrough a cultural study of the media practices of agroup of young people living in an English coastaltown. The author was the students teacher for twoyears preceding the project and visited themperiodically over more than three years to conductsmall-group interviews. Previous studies of youngpeoples cultural practices have frequently focusedon the use of specific media forms, such astelevision or information technology, at a specificpoint in time. This work focuses on the studentsuse over time of a range of media, including movingimage, sound, print and ICT, arguing that theyoungsters practices should be viewed less asdiscrete competencies than as processes ofmulti-modal literacy. It will be of interest toeducators, parents and everyone who wishes to graspthe nature of contemporary literacy.

O autorze

John Hodgson studied English at Christ s College, Cambridge, and
taught in several secondary schools before taking his doctorate
at the University of the West of England, where he is Lecturer in
Cultural Studies. He is Research Officer of the National
Association for the Teaching of English (UK).