The New Literacies Multiple Perspectives on Research and Practice

by Baker, Elizabeth A.; Leu, Donald J.

• ISBN13: 9781606236055
• ISBN10: 1606236059
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-13
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learning - and the changing nature of literacy itself - in today's K-12 classrooms.

Author Biography

Elizabeth A. Baker, EdD, is Associate Professor of Literacy Studies in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri, where she teaches graduate seminars on new literacies, theoretical foundations of literacy, and qualitative research methods. Her research interests include the nature of literacy in digital environments, multimedia case-based instruction in teacher education, classroom websites used to support literacy development, and theoretical groundings of new literacies. Dr. Baker has published research reports in a wide range of journals.She is the creator and host of the Voice of Literacy podcast, produced in collaboration with Reading Research Quarterly and the Journal of Literacy Research, and is codeveloper and principal investigator of “ChALK, Children as Literacy Kases.”

Table of Contents

Foreword, Donald J. Leu 1. Theoretical Perspectives and Literacy Studies: An Exploration of Roles and Insights, Elizabeth A. Baker, P. David Pearson, and Mary S. Rozendal 2. Reading Proficiency, the Struggling Reader, and the Role of Technology, Ted S. Hasselbring 3. Can Behaviorist and Constructivist Applications Coexist in the New Literacies?, Michael C. McKenna and Kristin E. Conradi 4. A Multiliteracies Perspective on the New Literacies, Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, and Anne Cloonan 5. Traversing the “Literacies” Landscape: A Semiotic Perspective on Early Literacy Acquisition and Digital Literacies Instruction, Linda D. Labbo and Tammy Ryan 6. Cognitive Processing Perspectives on the New Literacies, Diane H. Tracey, Alex W. Storer, and Sohrob Kazerounian 7. From Print to Pixels: The Evolution of Cognitive Conceptions of Reading Comprehension, Douglas K. Hartman, Paul Mark Morsink, and Jinjie Zheng 8. A Situated–Sociocultural Approach to Literacy and Technology, James Paul Gee 9. Screens and Scrapbooking: Sociocultural Perspectives on the New Literacies, Kelly Chandler-Olcott and Elizabeth Carol Lewis 10. An Examination of Workplace Literacy Research from New Literacies and Sociocultural Perspectives, Larry Mikulecky 11. Feminist Perspectives on the New Literacies: Practices and Research, Barbara J. Guzzetti 12. From the Personal to the Worldwide Web: Moving Teachers into Positions of Critical Interrogation, Vivian Vasquez, Jerome C. Harste, and Peggy Albers 13. New Literacies, New Insights: An Exploration of Traditional and New Perspectives, Elizabeth A. Baker