Kate Pahl & Jennifer Rowsell 
Literacy and Education 

Literacy and Education continues to be an accessible guide to current theory on literacy with practical applications in the classroom. This new edition has a new focus on the ecologies of literacy and on participatory and visual ways of researching literacy.

The new edition examines

– new literacy studies

– material culture and literacy

– digital literacies

– the ecological, place-based approaches to literacy education

– timescales and identities, and

– ways in which research has moved on to inform literacy education.

Classroom teachers, teacher trainers and students of literacy will find this a user-friendly guide to new theory in literacy education, clearly demonstrating how to implement this theory in the classroom in a way that is inclusive and listens to the students of today.

Inhoudsopgave

The New Literacy Studies and Teaching Literacy: Where We Were and Where We Are Going

Multimodal Literacies: New Ways of Reading and Writing

Children′s Texts Go to School

Literacies in the Community

Literacy and Identity: Who Are the Meaning Makers?

Navigating New Literacies for New Times: Shaping Curriculum and Pedagogy

Conclusion to the Second Editionn of Literacy and Education

References

Index