LITERACY STUDIES, 5 VOLUME SET. This item is unavailable.LITERACY STUDIES, 5 VOLUME SET

This five-volume collection lays out the foundations and nuances of literacy studies. Beginning with the theoretical and epistemological perspectives that have been influential in shaping contemporary approaches in literacy studies, the set further explores new digital literacies, literacy in educational and institutional contexts, and the crucial issues of literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. With a full introduction to the set and to each volume, researchers will find in this set a comprehensive guide to this crucial area of study.

Mike Baynham is Professor of TESOL in the School of Education at the University of Leeds. His professional background is in Adult ESL and Literacy. Before coming to Leeds, he spent ten years in Sydney at the University of Technology, Sydney where he was Director of the Centre for Language and Literacy, and before that he worked in London in Adult and Higher Education. He was Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) for the period 2001-2003. Areas of interest include speech representation in both narrative and non narrative contexts and socially situated perspectives on literacy, in particular academic literacies, classroom discourse, language and maths.

Mastin Prinsloo is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, working in Applied Language and Literacy Studies. His publications includeThe Social Uses of Literacy (co-edited with Mignonne Breier, John Benjamins, 1996) and Literacies, Global and Local (co-edited with Mike Baynham, John Benjamins, 2008).