Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy Studies

Kate Pahl & Jennifer Rowsell

This practical guide offers a way to rethink, redefine and redesign language and literacy in the classroom to meet contemporary needs and skills. Special features include:

  • multiple activities in each chapter
  • theory boxes highlighting seminal research and theory
  • suggestions for classroom design and planning ideas
  • New Literacy Studies assessment frameworks
  • vignettes of New Literacy Studies and multiliteracies classrooms
  • a comprehensive glossary of terms.

Bringing together research, theory and practice, this book is a valuable resource for teachers-in-training, practising teachers and students studying literacy education at graduate level.

Published by Paul Chapman Publishing

ISBN-10: 1 4129 0114 6

Format: Paperback

Published in 2005

Book jacket of Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy Studies

Price: £20.99