Description
| Product ID: | 9781783094615 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | New Perspectives on Language and Education |
| Title: | Literacy Theories for the Digital Age |
| Subtitle: | Social, Critical, Multimodal, Spatial, Material and Sensory Lenses |
| Authors: | Author: Kathy A. Mills |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Literacy, Literacy, Educational strategies and policy, Literacy strategies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Multilingual Matters |
| Publisher Name: | Channel View Publications Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-12-03 |
