Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies : : Instances of Practice / / ed. by Kate Pahl, Jennifer Rowsell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alvermann, Donna E.,; Baker, Dave,; Brandt, Deborah,; Clinton, Katie,; Comber, Barbara,; Davies, Julia,; Janks, Hilary,; Kell, Cathy,; Knobel, Michele,; Kress, Gunther,; Lankshear, Colin,; Marsh, Jackie,; Millard, Elaine,; Nichols, Sue,; Pahl, Kate,; Rowsell, Jennifer,; Slonimsky, Lynne,; Stein, Pippa,; Street, Brian,
• HerausgeberIn: Pahl, Kate,; Rowsell, Jennifer,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Introduction --; Part 1. Identity in Multimodal Communicative Practices --; Chapter 1. Global, Local/Public, Private: Young Children’s Engagement in Digital Literacy Practices in the Home --; Chapter 2. Ned and Kevin: An Online Discussion that Challenges the ‘Not-Yet Adult’ Cultural Model --; Chapter 3. Escaping to the Borderlands: An Exploration of the Internet as a Cultural Space for Teenaged Wiccan Girls --; Chapter 4. Weblog Worlds and Constructions of Effective and Powerful Writing: Cross with Care, and Only Where Signs Permit --; Part 2. Multimodal Literacy Practices in Local and Global Spaces --; Chapter 5. Critical Literacy Across Continents --; Chapter 6. An Eye on the Text and an Eye on the Future: Multimodal Literacy in Three Johannesburg Families --; Chapter 7. Crossing the Margins: Literacy, Semiotics and the Recontextualisation of Meanings --; Part 3. Crossings in Literacy Practices --; Chapter 8. From Boardroom to Classroom: Tracing a Globalised Discourse on Thinking Through Internet Texts and Teaching Practice --; Chapter 9. Corporate Crossings: Tracing Textual Crossings --; Part 4. Multimodal Communicative Practices in Pedagogical Settings --; Chapter 10. So, What About Multimodal Numeracies? --; Chapter 11. Transformative Pedagogy: Teachers Creating a Literacy of Fusion --; Afterword --; Biographies --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781853598630; 9783111024738; 9783110663136; 9783110606713
• DOI: 10.21832/9781853598630
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Kate Pahl, Jennifer Rowsell.

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.