To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate the extent to which our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between "official" narratives and the counternarratives which emerge as oppositional responses. Counternarratives develops a concept of "postmodern counternarratives" as a frame for exploring the politics of media, technology and education within everyday struggles for human identities and loyalties. The authors identify two forms of counternarratives. One functions as a critique of the modernist propensity for grand...
To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate the extent to which our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between "offici...
This work explores everyday social practices, and how they influence who people are, what they become, the quality of their lives, the opportunities and possibilities open to them, and those they are denied. There is an emphasis on language and literacy components of social practices. The following questions are asked: How are language and literacy framed within different social practices?; How are social practices in turn shaped and framed by language and literacy?; what are the consequences for the lives and identities of individuals and groups?; How can we understand these relationships,...
This work explores everyday social practices, and how they influence who people are, what they become, the quality of their lives, the opportunities a...
This book identifies five features that must be present in all research and provides clear and accessible guidelines for teachers to meet these requirement in studies designed to enhance their vocation as educators. It is written in a clear and accessible manner and engages with key issues integral to all kinds of research. Suitable for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate research and for self-directed teacher researchers who drive their own independent studies.
This book identifies five features that must be present in all research and provides clear and accessible guidelines for teachers to meet these req...
""Like a compass guiding you to what's important and why in this rapidly evolving field, this new edition is utterly stimulating but also thoughtful and measured." Daniel Cassany, Literacy Researcher and Teacher, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain "
""Essential reading for those interested in new and emerging literacy practices, New Literacies maps the contours of on- and off-line participation and how it is transforming learning and communication. This book provides the necessary theoretical background and illustration of practice for a radical re-appraisal of how we think...
""Like a compass guiding you to what's important and why in this rapidly evolving field, this new edition is utterly stimulating but also thoughtful a...
A New Literacies Reader is an introduction to social and cultural studies of new literacies from the perspectives of educators, education researchers and learners. It focuses on how participating in social practices of new literacies can be seen and understood in terms of people becoming insiders to ways of doing and being that are today considered desirable or worthwhile, and how this can usefully inform how we think about formal schooling and learning. The book's 18 chapters cover a variety of topics, including: ? studies of new literacies within classroom contexts ?...
A New Literacies Reader is an introduction to social and cultural studies of new literacies from the perspectives of educators, education resea...
This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualitative research across a diverse range of purposes concerned with understanding new literacies in theory and in practice. It is based on the idea that one of the best ways of learning how to do good research is by closely following the approaches taken by excellent researchers. This volume brings together a group of internationally reputed qualitative researchers who have investigated new literacies from a sociocultural perspective. These contributors offer "under the hood" accounts of how they have adapted...
This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualitative research across a diverse range of purposes concerned with un...
This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualitative research across a diverse range of purposes concerned with understanding new literacies in theory and in practice. It is based on the idea that one of the best ways of learning how to do good research is by closely following the approaches taken by excellent researchers. This volume brings together a group of internationally reputed qualitative researchers who have investigated new literacies from a sociocultural perspective. These contributors offer "under the hood" accounts of how they have adapted...
This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualitative research across a diverse range of purposes concerned with un...
