Literacy Moves On: Using Popular Culture, New Technologies and Critical Literacy in the Primary Classroom (Informing Teaching) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843122499 ISBN 13: 9781843122494

Publisher: David Fulton Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

This book looks at the changing nature of literacy and at the way in which new and different literacies are emerging in the first part of the 21st century. It considers how children are shaping and being shaped by these changes, it also looks at how teachers need to bridge-the-gap between children's out of school interests and school based curriculum demands. This edited collection, which features chapters by international experts and voices in the field, aims to: Take a closer look at (and demystify) some of the influences on literacy in the 21st century e.g. popular culture, multi-modal texts, email, text messaging and critical literacy. Enhance teachers' awareness of these developments and show how they can use them to improve the literacy skills of their pupils. Show, through the Implications for Practice sections, how teachers can find different but straightforward ways of linking children's personal, out-of-school interests with the demands of the school curriculum.

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Review

As educators, we are in urgent need of a newly conceived language and literacy curriculum. ... We need rich visions of classroom possibilities, and that is just what Janet Evans and her colleagues offer in abundance.

Edition details

• Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1843122499
• ISBN 13: 9781843122494
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Evans Janet