This unique global perspective on multiple literacies crosses traditional boundaries between the study of family, community, and school literacies. It calls attention to the ideological nature of literacy education across a broad range of literacy contex
This unique global perspective on multiple literacies crosses traditional boundaries between the study of family, community, and school literacies. It...
Designed to stimulate debate and critical thinking and to draw readers' attention to the ideological nature of literacy education across a broad range of literacy contexts, this book crosses traditional boundaries between the study of family, community, and school literacies to offer a unique global perspective on multiple literacies, from theory to case studies of various settings. These examples suggest ways that literacy practices should be created by simultaneously shaping relationships and identity, and by privileging particular literacy practices in particular situations. The dialogue...
Designed to stimulate debate and critical thinking and to draw readers' attention to the ideological nature of literacy education across a broad range...
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...
Over the past three decades, our conceptualizations of literacy and what it means to be literate have expanded to include recognition that there is a qualitative difference in how we communicate through modalities such as the visual, audio, spatial, and linguistic and that different modes are combined in complex ways to make meaning. The field of multimodality is concerned with how human beings use different modes of communication to represent or make meaning in the world. Despite the rapid growth of international research in this area, accounts of a broader range of global sites,...
Over the past three decades, our conceptualizations of literacy and what it means to be literate have expanded to include recognition that there is...
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...
