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Travel notes from the new literacy studies : instances of practice

Title
Travel notes from the new literacy studies : instances of practice / edited by Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell.
Publication
Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, ©2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Pahl, Kate.
  • Rowsell, Jennifer, 1969-
Description
x, 268 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Summary
This book joins two important fields, that of literacy and multi-modality, with a focus on local and global literacies. Chapters include work on media, popular culture and literacy, weblogs, global and local crossings, in a range of educational settings in the US, the UK, South Africa, Australia and Canada.
Series Statement
New perspectives on language and education
Uniform Title
New perspectives on language and education
Subject
  • Literacy
  • Technological literacy
  • Globalization
  • Educational Status
  • globalism
  • literacy
  • Alfabetisme
  • Internationalisatie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Global, local/public, private : young children's engagement in digital literacy practices in the home / Jackie Marsh -- Ned and Kevin : an online discussion that challenges the 'not-yet adult' cultural model / Donna E. Alvermann -- Escaping to the borderlands : an exploration of the Internet as a cultural space for teenaged Wiccan girls / Julia Davies -- Weblog worlds and constructions of effective and powerful writing : cross with care, and only where signs permit / Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear -- Critical literacy across continents / Hilary Janks and Barbara Comber -- An eye on the text and an eye on the future : multimodal literacy in three Johannesburg families / Pippa Stein and Lynne Slominsky -- Crossing the margins : literacy, semiotics and the recontextualisation of meanings / Cathy Kell -- From boardroom to classroom : tracing a globalised discourse on thinking through Internet texts and teaching practice / Sue Nichols -- Corporate crossings : tracing textual crossings / Jennifer Rowsell -- So, what about multimodal numeracies? / Brian Street and Dave Baker -- Transformative pedagogy : teachers creating a literacy of fusion / Elaine Millard.
ISBN
  • 1853598623
  • 9781853598623
  • 1853598615
  • 9781853598616
  • 1853598631
  • 9781853598630
LCCN
  • 2005021288
  • 9781853598623
  • 9781853598616
  • 9781853598630
OCLC
  • ocm61169745
  • 61169745
  • SCSB-8907013
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library