Travel notes from the new literacy studies [electronic resource] : instances of practice /

Travel notes from the new literacy studies instances of practice / [electronic resource] : edited by Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell. - Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2006. - x, 268 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - New perspectives on language and education . - New perspectives on language and education. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global, local/public, private: young children's engagement in digital literacy -- Practices in the home / Ned and Kevin: an online discussion that challenges the 'not-yet adult' cultural model / Escaping to the borderlands: an exploration of the Internet as a cultural space for teenaged Wiccan girls / Weblog worlds and constructions of effective and powerful writing: cross with care, and only where signs permit / Critical literacy across continents / An eye on the text and an eye on the future: multimodal literacy in three Gauteng families / Crossing the margins: recontextualisation, literacy and semiotic power? / From boardroom to classroom: tracing a globalised discourse on thinking through Internet texts and teaching practice / Corporate crossings: tracing textual crossings / So, what about multimodal numeracies? / Transformative pedagogy: teachers creating a literacy of fusion / Jackie Marsh -- Donna Alvermann -- Julia Davies -- Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear -- Hilary Janks and Barbara Comber -- Pippa Stein and Lynne Slominsky -- Cathy Kell -- Sue Nichols -- Jennifer Rowsell -- Brian Street and Dave Baker -- Elaine Millard.


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Literacy.
Technological literacy.
Globalization.


Electronic books.

LC149 / .T73 2006eb

302.2/244

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