Testifying to the maturity of the youth literacy education field, this collection of papers displays the increasing sophistication of research on the subject, and at the same time offers pointers to its potential for development in the next decade. The contributors track the rapid proliferation of youth literacies in today's digital age, from video games to social media and film production. Drawing on detailed research and an intimate knowledge of youth communities in nations as diverse as Canada and Uganda, they provide notable examples of digital literacies "in situ," and challenge...
Testifying to the maturity of the youth literacy education field, this collection of papers displays the increasing sophistication of research on t...
This book charts new territory both theoretically and methodologically. Drawing on MacDougall's notion of social aesthetics, it explores the sensory dimensions of privilege through a global ethnography of elite schools. The various contributors to the volume draw on a range of theoretical perspectives from Lefebvre, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Appadurai, Kress and van Leeuwen to both broaden and critique MacDougall's original concept. They argue that within these elite schools there is a relationship between their 'complex sensory and aesthetic environments' and the construction of privilege within...
This book charts new territory both theoretically and methodologically. Drawing on MacDougall's notion of social aesthetics, it explores the sensory d...
This book discusses current market-based educational discourses and how they have undermined the notion of "the public" in public education by allowing private visions of education to define the public democratic imagination. Against this discouraging background, this text embraces Freire's understanding of hope as an ontological need and calls for finding new public grounds for our public imagination. It further articulates Freire's mandate to unveil historically concrete practices to sustain democratic educational visions, no matter how difficult this task may be, by (1) presenting an...
This book discusses current market-based educational discourses and how they have undermined the notion of "the public" in public education by allowin...
This book argues that the mythic figure of the zombie, so prevalent and powerful in contemporary culture, provides the opportunity to explore certain social models - such as `childhood' and `school', `class' and `family' - that so deeply underpin educational policy and practice as to be rendered invisible.
This book argues that the mythic figure of the zombie, so prevalent and powerful in contemporary culture, provides the opportunity to explore certain ...
This volume is the first major production of the globalisation research strand of the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University. This book makes a significant contribution to the theory of and research in globalisation and education, and tackles the topics of superdiversity and supercomplexity. The book s thesis is that the effects of globalisation on education can only be understood if the specific yet complex conditions of globalisation in education are investigated. The book takes an international approach to understanding globalisation and does not restrict itself to...
This volume is the first major production of the globalisation research strand of the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University. Th...
This book focuses on the interrelationship between international student connectedness and identity from transnational and transdisciplinary perspectives. It addresses the core issues surrounding international students physical and virtual connectedness to people, places and communities as well as the conditions that shape their transnational connectedness and identity formation. Further, it analyses the nature, diversity and complexity of international student connectedness and identity development across different national, social and cultural boundaries.
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This book focuses on the interrelationship between international student connectedness and identity from transnational and transdisciplinary perspe...
This book examines ways that youth engage with new literacies, and offers direction for educators. Covers new literacies in diverse contexts, the interwoven production and consumption of texts and the challenges that accompany the new literacies framework.
This book examines ways that youth engage with new literacies, and offers direction for educators. Covers new literacies in diverse contexts, the inte...
They argue that within these elite schools there is a relationship between their `complex sensory and aesthetic environments' and the construction of privilege within and beyond the school gates.
They argue that within these elite schools there is a relationship between their `complex sensory and aesthetic environments' and the construction of ...
This book discusses current market-based educational discourses and how they have undermined the notion of "the public" in public education by allowing private visions of education to define the public democratic imagination.
This book discusses current market-based educational discourses and how they have undermined the notion of "the public" in public education by allowin...
