Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy Studies

This practical guide offers a way to rethink, redefine and redesign language and literacy in the classroom to meet contemporary needs and skills. Special features include:

• multiple activities in each chapter
• theory boxes highlighting seminal research and theory
• suggestions for classroom design and planning ideas
• New Literacy Studies assessment frameworks
• vignettes of New Literacy Studies and multiliteracies classrooms
• a comprehensive glossary of terms.

Bringing together research, theory and practice, this book is a valuable resource for teachers-in-training, practising teachers and students studying literacy education at graduate level.