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Literacy Theories for the Digital Age: Social, Critical, Multimodal, Spatial, Material and Sensory Lenses
Kathy A. Mills
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Description for Literacy Theories for the Digital Age: Social, Critical, Multimodal, Spatial, Material and Sensory Lenses
Paperback. This book critically reviews essential approaches to literacy research and practice in the digital age while showing the relationships between these vital paradigms. This indispensable volume also introduces sensory literacies - a new approach with powerful potential for today's learning environments. Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFC; JNFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
New Perspectives on Language and Education
Condition
New
Weight
322g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783094615
SKU
V9781783094615
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About Kathy A. Mills
Kathy A. Mills is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Kathy's research interests include literacy, digital media, education research paradigms, critical sociology, ethnography, classroom observation, discourse analysis, and multimodal analysis. She is Associate Editor of the Australian Educational Researcher and her previous works include The Multiliteracies Classroom (Multilingual Matters, 2011).
Reviews for Literacy Theories for the Digital Age: Social, Critical, Multimodal, Spatial, Material and Sensory Lenses
As literacy practices mutate in the digital era, research must evolve, and yet curricula still appear to lag behind. Mills addresses her book to graduate students of education, so that they may gain a vital introduction to some of the key theories that shape literacy education in the digital turn.
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