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Author:   Peggy Albers (Georgia State University, USA) ,  Tuba Angay-Crowder ,  Christi L. Pace ,  Aram Cho
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9781138742390

ISBN 10:   1138742392
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   13 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Critical Literacy, School Improvement, and the Four Resources Model 2. What Do We Mean By Literacy Now: Critical Curricular Implications 3. Doing Critical Literacy 4. Towards an Ecologically-Valid, Scientifically Rigorous, Theory of Learning-To-Read 5. Exploring Literacy and Identity at Multiple Timescales 6. Ethically Based Literacy Assessment Within a New Literacy Framework 7. How Affordances of Digital Tool Use Foster Critical Literacy 8. New Mobile Literacies 9. Constructing the Child at Play: From the Schooled Child to Technotoddlers and Back Again 10. Young Children’s Online Practices: Past, Present and Future 11. Books and Games 12. Living in a Digital World: Literacy, Learning, and Videogames 13. (Im)Material Girls Living in (im)material Worlds: Identity Curation Through Time and Space 14. Identity, Investment, and Multilingual Literacy (in a Digital World) 15. A Critical Untangling of Adolescents’ Literacy Practices and Popular Culture

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This text is a `must have' for any literacy researcher, scholar, and student interested in critical literacy, digital literacy, and teacher professional development in global contexts. Each chapter offers cutting edge perspectives and insights from esteemed literacy researchers and theorists from around the world. --Amy Seely Flint, University of Louisville, USA This is an outstanding text for a course focusing on socio-cultural aspects of language and literacy learning. The talks feature renowned literacy scholars who share cutting-edge research on topics such as critical literacy, digital literacies, multimodal learning, and more. Grounded in critical literacies and sociocultural perspectives, the variety of perspectives in this text will help students and scholars of language and literacy gain broader insight into current issues of importance within the field across global contexts. --Peggy Semingson, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

"""This text is a ‘must have’ for any literacy researcher, scholar, and student interested in critical literacy, digital literacy, and teacher professional development in global contexts. Each chapter offers cutting edge perspectives and insights from esteemed literacy researchers and theorists from around the world."" --Amy Seely Flint, University of Louisville, USA ""This is an outstanding text for a course focusing on socio-cultural aspects of language and literacy learning. The talks feature renowned literacy scholars who share cutting-edge research on topics such as critical literacy, digital literacies, multimodal learning, and more. Grounded in critical literacies and sociocultural perspectives, the variety of perspectives in this text will help students and scholars of language and literacy gain broader insight into current issues of importance within the field across global contexts."" --Peggy Semingson, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA"

Author Information

Peggy Albers is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at Georgia State University, USA. She is founder and director of the Global Conversations in Literacy Research series of literacy talks.

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