Full Description
Winner of the 2017 Edward Fry Book Award from the Literacy Research Association.
Literacy Theories for the Digital Age insightfully brings together six essential approaches to literacy research and educational practice. The book provides powerful and accessible theories for readers, including Socio-cultural, Critical, Multimodal, Socio-spatial, Socio-material and Sensory Literacies. The brand new Sensory Literacies approach is an original and visionary contribution to the field, coupled with a provocative foreword from leading sensory anthropologist David Howes. This dynamic collection explores a legacy of literacy research while showing the relationships between each paradigm, highlighting their complementarity and distinctions. This highly relevant compendium will inspire researchers and teachers to explore new frontiers of thought and practice in times of diversity and technological change.
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
Rhizomatic Literacy Theories
Chapter 1: Globalisation, Mobile Lives and Schooling in the Digital Turn
Chapter 2: Socio-Cultural Literacies
Chapter 3: Critical Literacies
Chapter 4: Multimodal Literacies
Chapter 5: Socio-Spatial Literacies
Chapter 6: Socio-Material Literacies
Chapter 7: Sensory Literacies
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