ISBN:
9780415214216
Language:
English
Pages:
359 p.
Series Statement:
Literacies
DDC:
420.71
Keywords:
English language
;
Literacy
;
Multiculturalism
;
Study and teaching
;
Englisch
;
Interkulturelles Lernen
;
Fremdsprachenunterricht
;
Konferenzschrift 1994
;
Fremdsprachenunterricht
;
Interkulturelles Lernen
Description / Table of Contents:
MultiliteraciesLiteracy Learning and the Design of Social Futures; Copyright; Contents; About the Authors; PART IIntroduction; Introduction: Multiliteracies: The Beginnings of an Idea; 1 A pedagogy of Multiliteracies Designing Social Futures; PART IIChanging Times: The 'why' of Multiliteracies; Introduction; 2 New People in New Worlds: Networks, the New Capitalism and Schools; 3 Cyber-Schooling and Technological Change: Multiliteracies for New Times; 4 Multiliteracies and Multilingualism; 5 History, Cultural Diversity and English Language Teaching; 6 Changing the Role of Schools
Description / Table of Contents:
PART IIIDesigns of Meaning: The 'what' of MultiliteraciesIntroduction; 7 Design and Transformation: New Theories of Meaning; 8 Multiliteracies and Language: Orders of Discourse and Intertextuality; 9 Multimodality; 10 Designs for Social Futures; PART IVPedagogy: The 'how' of Multiliteracies; Introduction; 11 A Multiliteracies Pedagogy: a Pedagogical Supplement; 12 Taking Cultural Differences into Account; 13 Narratives and Inscriptions: Cultural Tools, Power and Powerful Sense-Making; PART VMultiliteracies in Practice; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
14 The Multiliteracies Project: South African Teachers Respond15 Negotiating a pedagogy of Multiliteracies: the communication curriculum in a South African Management Development Programme; 16 Four Innovative Programmes: A Postscript from Alice Springs; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Multiliteracies considers the future of literacy teaching in the context of the rapidly changing English language. Questions are raised about what constitutes appropriate literacy teaching in today's world: a world that is both a global village yet one which local diversity is increasingly important. This is a coherent and accessible overview of the work of the New London Group, with well-known international contributors bringing together their varying national experiences and differences of theoretical and political emphasis. The essays deal with issues such as: 〈LI
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