Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social FuturesBill Cope, Mary Kalantzis Multiliteracies considers the future of literacy teaching in the context of the rapidly changing English language. Questions are raised about what constitutes appropriate literacy teaching in today's world: a world that is both a global village yet one which local diversity is increasingly important. This is a coherent and accessible overview of the work of the New London Group, with well-known international contributors bringing together their varying national experiences and differences of theoretical and political emphasis. The essays deal with issues such as:
The book concludes with case studies of attempts to put the theories into practice and thereby provides a basis for dialogue with fellow educators around the world. |
Contents
Multiliteracies the beginnings of an idea | 3 |
A pedagogy of Multiliteracies designing social futures | 9 |
Changing times the why of Multiliteracies | 39 |
Introduction | 41 |
New people in new worlds networks the new capitalism and schools | 43 |
Cyberschooling and technological change Multiliteracies for new times | 69 |
Multiliteracies and multilingualism | 92 |
History cultural diversity and English language teaching | 106 |
Design for social futures | 203 |
PEDAGOGY The how of Multiliteracies | 235 |
Introduction | 237 |
A Multiliteracies pedagogy a pedagogical supplement | 239 |
Taking cultural differences into account | 249 |
Narratives and inscriptions cultural tools power and powerful sensemaking | 267 |
Multiliteracies in practice | 289 |
Introduction | 291 |
Changing the role of schools | 121 |
Design of meaning the what of multiliteracies | 149 |
Introduction | 151 |
Design and transformation new theories of meaning Gunther Kress | 153 |
Multiliteracies and language orders of discourse and intertextuality | 162 |
Multimodality | 182 |
The Multiliteracies Project South African teachers respond | 292 |
Negotiating a pedagogy of Multiliteracies the communication curriculum in a South African management development programme | 311 |
Four innovative programmes a postscript from Alice Springs | 321 |
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Common terms and phrases
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