Description:
This book joins two important fields, that of literacy and multimodality, with a focus on local and global literacies. Chapters include work on media, popular culture and literacy, weblogs, global and local crossings, in and out of educational settings in such locations as the US, the UK, South Africa, Australia and Canada.
Brief description:
Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation and Deputy Head of School at University of Bristol's School of Education. Her scholarship explores ways to expand literacy to match the kinds of skills and practices children, teenagers, and adults use and understand today. Her research interests include multimodal, makerspace and arts-based research with young people; digital literacies research; and, more recent work in posthumanist and affect approaches to literacy teaching and learning as well as research on the digital divide.
Review Quotes:
This book is an excellent edited collection that focuses on the New Literacy Studies as well as, and in relation to, other theoretical orientations. This book does a first-rate job in the way it uses specific instances from the authors' data to argue that literacy does work in multiple, complex ways.
-- "Dana J. Wilber, Montclair State University, in E-Learning Volume 3, Number 4"