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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783783603321

Titolo

Travel notes from the new literacy studies [[electronic resource] ] : instances of practice / / edited by Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Clevedon [England] ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2006

ISBN

1-84769-925-1

1-280-50168-5

9786610501687

1-85359-863-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

New perspectives on language and education

Altri autori (Persone)

PahlKate

RowsellJennifer <1969->

Disciplina

302.2/244

Soggetti

Literacy

Technological literacy

Globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 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 Gauteng families / Pippa Stein and Lynne Slominsky -- Crossing the margins: recontextualisation, literacy and semiotic power? / 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.



Sommario/riassunto

This book joins two important fields, that of literacy and multimodality, with a focus on local and global literacies. Chapters include work on media, popular culture and literacy, weblogs, global and local crossings, in and out of educational settings in such locations as the US, the UK, South Africa, Australia and Canada.