This work explores everyday social practices, and how they influence who people are, what they become, the quality of their lives, the opportunities and possibilities open to them, and those they are denied. There is an emphasis on language and literacy components of social practices. The following questions are asked: How are language and literacy framed within different social practices?; How are social practices in turn shaped and framed by language and literacy?; what are the consequences for the lives and identities of individuals and groups?; How can we understand these relationships, and build on this understanding to develop critical forms of literacy and language awareness that enhance human dignity, freedom and social justice?

Changing Literacies (Changing Education)

Education & Teaching

Gee, James Paul

Lankshear, Colin

Knobel, Michele

Searle, Chris

Schools & Teaching

Open Univ Pr

This book responds to the complexity of the current debates associated with boys, gender reform, literacy and schooling by offering a clear map of the current context, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the various competing solutions put forward, and outlining a range of practical classroom interventions designed for dealing with the boys/literacy crisis. The authors consider the ways in which particular views of masculinity, gender reform, literacy, technology and popular culture can either open up or close down new conceptualizations of what it means to be a boy and what it means to literate.

Boys, Literacies and Schooling: The Dangerous Territories of Gender-Based Literacy Reform

Politics & Social Sciences

Bigum, Chris

Social Sciences

A handbook for teacher research

This book provides a comprehensive approach to teacher research as systematic, methodical and informed practice. It identifies five generic features that must be present in all kinds of research and provides clear and accessible guidelines for teachers to meet these in studies designed to enhance their vocation as educators. The authors' approach makes the book appropriate for self-directed teacher research, as well as teacher research done in collaboration with professional researchers or as part of academic programs.* A clear definition of teacher research which insists on more than 'stories' and 'retrospectives'* A strong emphasis on design of research projects* An innovative organisational structure based on collection and analysis of spoken, written and observed data* A strong and widely applicable selection of easily used tools and techniques for collecting and analysing data in qualitative research* Acknowledges the relevance of quantitative and document-based as well as qualitative forms of inquiry in teacher research* Accessible and informative discussions of key issues in teacher research like interpretation, ethics, and validity.This book is intended to provide everything the teacher researcher needs as a guide to conducting good quality practitioner research. It is written in a clear and accessible manner, while engaging with key issues integral to all kinds of research. The book is informed by the authors' own wide-ranging research experiences. It will be suitable for use in upper levels of undergraduate Education programs, as well as in postgraduate research. At the same time it is designed for use by self-directed teacher researchers who conceive and drive their own independent studies.

A Handbook for Teacher Research

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Open University Press

New Literacies

"Lankshear and Knobel's New Literacies: Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning is a savvy and principled analysis of emerging socio-cultural conditions of digitization, the best take to date on education, Post-Lyotard." - Suzanne de Castell, Professor, Literacy and New Media Studies, Simon Fraser University "An intriguing book which argues why the use of new media is transforming ways of knowing and making meaning in the digital age. Essential reading for anyone who cares about literacy education." - Associate Professor Ilana Snyder, Monash University 
 "A good book opens a window onto new vistas; an excellent one, on the other hand, pulls readers through the opening and beyond, inviting critical dialogue at every turn. New Literacies belongs in the excellent catagory." - Donna Alvermann, University of Georgia
 "superb" - British Journal of Educational Studies
 Literacy education continues to be dominated by a mindset that has passed its use-by date. Education has failed to take account of how much the world has changed during the information technology revolution. It proceeds as though the world is the same as before - just somewhat more technologised. This is the hallmark of an 'outsider' mindset. In fact, qualitatively new literacies and new kinds of knowledge associated with digitally saturated social practices abound. 'Insiders' understand this, 'outsiders' do not. Yet 'outsider' perspectives still dominate educational directions. Meanwhile, student 'insiders' endure learning experiences that mystify, bemuse, alienate and miseducate them. 
 This book describes new social practices and new literacies, along with kinds of knowledge associated with them. It shows what is at stake between 'outsider' and 'insider' mindsets, argues that education requires a shift in mindset, and suggests how and where pursuit of progressive change might begin.

"Lankshear and Knobel's New Literacies: Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning is a savvy and principled analysis of emerging socio-cultural conditions of digitization, the best take to date on education, Post-Lyotard." - Suzanne de Castell, Professor, Literacy and New Media Studies, Simon Fraser University "An intriguing book which argues why the use of new media is transforming ways of knowing and making meaning in the digital age. Essential reading for anyone who cares about literacy education." - Associate Professor Ilana Snyder, Monash University "A good book opens a window onto new vistas; an excellent one, on the other hand, pulls readers through the opening and beyond, inviting critical dialogue at every turn. New Literacies belongs in the excellent catagory." - Donna Alvermann, University of GeorgiaLiteracy education continues to be dominated by a mindset that has passed its use-by date. Education has failed to take account of how much the world has changed during the information technology revolution. It proceeds as though the world is the same as before - just somewhat more technologised. This is the hallmark of an 'outsider' mindset. In fact, qualitatively new literacies and new kinds of knowledge associated with digitally saturated social practices abound. 'Insiders' understand this, 'outsiders' do not. Yet 'outsider' perspectives still dominate educational directions. Meanwhile, student 'insiders' endure learning experiences that mystify, bemuse, alienate and miseducate them. This book describes new social practices and new literacies, along with kinds of knowledge associated with them. It shows what is at stake between 'outsider' and 'insider' mindsets, argues that education requires a shift in mindset, and suggests how and where pursuit of progressive change might begin.

The World Has Changed—So Should the Way You Teach This thought-provoking book argues that education has failed to take into account how much the world has changed since the information technology revolution and that education requires a totally new mindset to become relevant. The authors describe the new social practices and new literacies associated with a digital world and offer suggestions on where change should occur.

New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning

This book is - in part - an introduction to research procedures that enable researchers and educators to identify and examine complex language and social practices enacted in young people's everyday lives. In the process, the actual lived experiences of four young adolescents in their final year of primary school are narrated, generating substantive content that speaks directly to the issues that lie behind this book: namely, what is the relationship between school learning and students' everyday lives, and what might an effective relationship between them look like? These questions are asked against a backdrop of national government pushes for literacy standards-setting and benchmarking in Australia and elsewhere.

Everyday Literacies: Students, Discourse, and Social Practice (Counterpoints)

Sociology

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Literacies: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives

This book presents sixteen essays in the new literacy studies tradition, written during the period 1985-2010. It covers a diverse range of themes with a particular emphasis on topics of cultural, political and historical interest. The collection includes both previously published and unpublished works, and is organized in four sections. Topics addressed in Part 1 include functional literacy, the politics of literacy in Nicaragua during the Sandinista period (1979-1990), the rise of the working class press in Britain, and reader response and the teacher as meaning-maker. Part 2 discusses critical literacy and active citizenship, literacy and empowerment, language and the new capitalism, varying ways of using computers in and out of school, and the way a low achieving student challenges conventional notions of literacy failure. Part 3 addresses the new literacy studies and the study of new literacies, the theory and practice of attention economics, and early developments in the use of ratings within online communities and social practices. The final part of the book takes up the theme of researching new literacies, discusses practices of digital remix, and provides a case study of becoming research literate within a context of DIY media creation.

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

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Changing Literacies (Changing Education)

Boys, Literacies and Schooling: The Dangerous Territories of Gender-Based Literacy Reform

A Handbook for Teacher Research

New Literacies

New Literacies

New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning

Everyday Literacies: Students, Discourse, and Social Practice (Counterpoints)

Literacies: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives

Literacies: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives