Situated Literacies: Reading and Writing in ContextDavid Barton, Mary Hamilton, Roz·Ivani閏, Roz Ivanič Situated Literacies is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices. Detailed ethnographic studies of a wide variety of specific situations, all involving real texts and lived practices, are balanced with general claims about the nature of literacy. Contributors address a coherent set of issues: * the visual and material aspects of literacy * concepts of time and space in relation to literacy * the functions of literacies in shaping and sustaining identities in communities of practice * the relationship between texts and the practices associated with their use the role of discourse analysis on literacy studies These studies, along with a foreword by Denny Taylor, make a timely and important contribution to literacy theory and suggest directions for the further development of the field. Situated Literacies is essential reading for anyone involved in literary education. |
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Contents
LITERACY PRACTICES | 7 |
EXPANDING THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES Using photographs to explore literacy as social practice | 16 |
THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES AND TIME An exploration | 35 |
THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THIRDSPACE THEORY Borderland Discourse and the inbetween literacies of prisons | 54 |
BECOMING JUST ANOTHER ALPHANUMERIC CODE Farmers encounters with the literacy and discourse practices of agricultural bureaucracy at ... | 68 |
TEXTS IN PRACTICES Interpreting the physical characteristics of childrens project work | 89 |
FAMILY LITERACY A pedagogy for the future? | 104 |
EMERGENT LITERACY PRACTICES IN AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNITY | 121 |
RESPECT AND THE PURSUIT OF SYMMETRY IN RESEARCHING LITERACY AND STUDENT WRITING | 145 |
RESEARCHING LITERACY PRACTICES Learning from activities with teachers and students | 163 |
THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES From socially situated to the work of the social | 176 |
THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES Context intertextuality and discourse | 193 |
NEW LITERACY STUDIES AT THE INTERCHANGE | 206 |
INDEX | 215 |
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