Literacies, Global and Local
Editors
| University of Cape Town
| University of Leeds
The articles collected in this volume draw on or relate to a body of work that has become known as the ‘New Literacy Studies’ (NLS), which studies literacy as situated semiotic practices that vary across sites in specific ways that are socially shaped. The collection offers a body of empirically and theoretically based papers on literacy ethnography as well as providing engagements with critical issues around literacy and education. The articles offer complementary perspectives on research and theory in literacy studies and include research perspectives from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, as well as North and South America. The researchers are all concerned to take the work of the New Literacy Studies further by expanding on its conceptual resources and research sites.
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 2] 2008. vii, 218 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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vii
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1–13
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Part I. Literacy and power
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15
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17–34
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35–50
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51–70
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Part II. Local and global: Taking hold of literacy
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71
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73–91
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93–116
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117–133
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Part III. Research tools: Conceptual resources for literacy study
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135
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137–149
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151–169
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Part IV. Literacy practices in time and space
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171
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173–192
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193–213
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Index
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215–218
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“This collection is a reminder that while educational policy founders between the macro and the micro, the global and the local – the futures of literacy are being made and remade by the likes of UK migrant children negotiating new identities, by Nepalese women reading and writing their lives for the first time, by middle class kids playing videogames, and in the street talk and artistry of children in the townships of South Africa.”
Allan Luke, Queensland University of Technology
“This timely collection of New Literacy Studies scholarship reflects the continuing generativity of the social literacies framework to tackle questions about texts and meaning-making in the globalised, multimodal and multilingual contexts of the 21st century.”
Janet Maybin, Open University Milton Keynes
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Bhatt, Ibrar, Roberto de Roock & Jonathon Adams
Hibbert, Liesel
Hobbs, Robert Dean
Kendrick, Maureen, Walter Chemjor & Margaret Early
Kendrick, Maureen, Margaret Early & Walter Chemjor
Kjus, Yngvar
Mirhosseini, Seyyed-Abdolhamid, Mohsen Shirazizadeh & Houra Pakizehdel
Moss, Gemma
Norton, Bonny & Kelleen Toohey
Norton, Bonny & Carrie-Jane Williams
Prinsloo, Mastin & Polo Lemphane
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFC – Literacy
BISAC Subject: LAN020000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching