Multiliteracies: Lit Learning

by Cope,Bill; Cope,Bill

• ISBN13: 9780415214216
• ISBN10: 0415214211
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-12-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

i Multiliteracies /i addresses the question of the future of literacy teaching: what should be taught and how. br br This new collection brings together the work of the most exciting voices in the field. Each of these specialists proposes a new pedagogy which recognises both cultural and linguistic diversity, and the many ways of representing meaning beyond language, such as the visual. br br Contributors include these leading international literacy researchers: Elsa Auerbach, Courtney Cazden, Norman Fairclough, James Paul Gee, Gunther Kress, Joseph Le Bianco, Carmen and Allen Luke, and Sarah Michaels.

Table of Contents

About the authors	ix
PART I Introduction	1	(38)
Introduction: Multiliteracies: the beginnings of an idea	3	(6)
Bill Cope
Mary Kalantzis
A pedagogy of Multiliteracies designing social futures
The New London Group	9	(30)
PART II Changing times: the `why' of Multiliteracies	39	(110)
Introduction	41	(2)
New people in new worlds: networks, the new capitalism and schools	43	(26)
James Paul Gee
Cyber-schooling and technological change: Multiliteracies for new times	69	(23)
Carmen Luke
Multiliteracies and multilingualism	92	(14)
Joseph Lo Bianco
History, cultural diversity and English language teaching	106	(15)
Martin Nakata
Changing the role of schools	121	(28)
Mary Kalantzis
Bill Cope
PART III Designs of meaning: the `what' of Multiliteracies	149	(86)
Introduction	151	(2)
Design and transformation: new theories of meaning	153	(9)
Gunther Kress
Multiliteracies and language: orders of discourse and intertextuality	162	(20)
Norman Fairclough
Multimodality	182	(21)
Gunther Kress
Designs for social futures	203	(32)
Bill Cope
Mary Kalantzis
PART IV Pedagogy: The `how' of Multiliteracies	235	(54)
Introduction	237	(2)
A Multiliteracies pedagogy: a pedagogical supplement	239	(10)
Mary Kalantzis
Bill Cope
Taking cultural differences into account	249	(18)
Courtney B. Cazden
Narratives and inscriptions: cultural tools, power and powerful sense-making	267	(22)
Sarah Michaels
Richard Sohmer
PART V Multiliteracies in practice	289	(44)
Introduction	291	(1)
The Multiliteracies Project: South African teachers respond	292	(19)
Denise Newfield
Pippa Stein
Negotiating a pedagogy of Multiliteracies: the communication curriculum in a South African management development programme	311	(10)
David Bond
Four innovative programmes: a postscript from Alice Springs	321	(12)
Courtney B. Cazden
References	333	(16)
Index	349