Colin Lankshear

Michele Knobel

The World Has Changed—So Should the Way You Teach This thought-provoking book argues that education has failed to take into account how much the world has changed since the information technology revolution and that education requires a totally new mindset to become relevant. The authors describe the new social practices and new literacies associated with a digital world and offer suggestions on where change should occur.

Changing Knowledge in the Classroom

New Literacies

The study of new literacies is quickly emerging as a major research field. This book «samples» work in the broad area of new literacies research along two dimensions. First, it samples some typical examples of new literacies - video gaming, fan fiction writing, weblogging, role play gaming, using websites to participate in affinity practices, memes, and other social activities involving mobile technologies. Second, the studies collectively sample from a wide range of approaches potentially available for researching and studying new literacies from a sociocultural perspective. Readers will come away with a rich sense of what new literacies are, and a generous appreciation of how they are being researched.

A New Literacies Sampler

Michael A. Peters

Mark Olssen

This book presents essays written by internationally acclaimed scholars on the leading figures and major social projects and movements within the tradition of critical theory. Critical Theory and the Human Condition is organized in two parts: «Labors of the Dialectic» and «Projects and Movements». «Labors of the Dialectic» addresses key themes associated with the work of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Eric Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Jürgen Habermas and Maxine Greene. Their work is situated in relation to contemporary issues associated with the human condition. «Projects and Movements» deals with the new politics of cynicism, knowledge, dialogue and humanization, critical race theory, critical multiculturalism, the body and feminist aesthetics, cultural studies, and the environment.

Founders and Praxis

Critical Theory and the Human Condition

“Like a compass guiding you to what’s important and why in this rapidly evolving field, this new edition is utterly stimulating but also thoughtful and measured.” Daniel Cassany, Literacy Researcher and Teacher, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain "Essential reading for those interested in new and emerging literacy practices, New Literacies maps the contours of on- and off-line participation and how it is transforming learning and communication. This book provides the necessary theoretical background and illustration of practice for a radical re-appraisal of how we think about literacy and literacy education." Guy Merchant, Professor of Literacy in Education,Faculty of Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University The new edition of this popular book takes a fresh look at what it means to think of literacies as social practices. The book explores what is distinctively 'new' within a range of currently popular everyday ways of generating, communicating and negotiating meanings. Revised, updated and significantly reconceptualised throughout, the book includes: Closer analysis of new literacies in terms of active collaboration A timely discussion of using wikis and other collaborative online writing resources Updated and expanded accounts of digital remix and blogging practices An explanation of social learning and collaborative platforms for social learning A fresh focus on online social networking A new batch of discussion questions and stimulus activities The importance of social learning for becoming proficient in many new literacy practices, and the significance of new media for expanding the reach and potential of social learning are discussed in the final part of the book. New Literacies 3/e concludes by describing empirical cases of social learning approaches mediated by collaborative learning platforms. This book is essential reading for students and academics within literacy studies, cultural or communication studies and education.

EBOOK: New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning

Reinvigorating critical theory by extending its range and its intellectual trajectories through strategies of inclusiveness that respect and build on parallel traditions, the authors reinterpret Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Heidegger in relation to central figures and themes of critical theory.

Dreams of Difference

Futures of Critical Theory

Peter McLaren

Heinz Sünker

Gustavo Fischman

We are living in a time of resurgent global conflicts and imperialistic tensions-a time in which many children are being left behind by school systems that appear more concerned with developing accountability schemes and standardized models of testing than with defending the right of every child to have access to a good education. The efforts of countless teachers, activists, and families working and living in poor areas around the world are labeled as failures, entirely discredited on the basis of their expendability in relation to capital gains, or simply ignored. In response to these oppressive and challenging conditions, this book's contributors-a group of committed educators and activists working in an ethos of solidarity across geopolitical and geographical borders-have advanced arguments and strategies that link educational transformation to the larger struggle to transform oppressive social relations. In a clear attempt to move beyond both nostalgia and romanticism, Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts draws from a range of viewpoints-conceptual and thematic, transnational and crosscultural, First World and Third World-to articulate new directions for teachers and activists working to demonstrate that another education, and indeed, another world, is possible.

Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts

Chris Bigum

Donna E. Alvermann

By embracing a rapidly changing digital world, the so-called millennial adolescent is proving quite adept at breaking down age-old distinctions among disciplines, between high- and low-brow media culture, and within print and digitized text types. Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World explores the significance of digital technologies and media in youth's negotiated approaches to making meaning within a broad array of self-defined literacy practices. Organized around a series of case studies, this book blends theories of an attention economy, generational differences, communication technologies, and neoliberal enactive texts with actual accounts of adolescents' use of instant messaging, shape-shifting portfolios, critical inquiry, and media production.

Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World

Rodney Gerber

A fresh, challenging, international perspective on the issues involved in building a smart workforce. Written by leading analysts and practitioners from Australia, New Zealand, Sweden and the USA, issues of competence and expertise are considered.

Training for a Smart Workforce

Henry A. Giroux

Michael Peters

To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate the extent to which our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between "official" narratives and the counternarratives which emerge as oppositional responses. Counternarratives develops a concept of "postmodern counternarratives" as a frame for exploring the politics of media, technology and education within everyday struggles for human identities and loyalties. The authors identify two forms of counternarratives. One functions as a critique of the modernist propensity for grand narratives. The second concept, which is the focus of the book, builds on the first; the idea of "little stories" addressing cultural and political opposition to the "official" narratives used to manipulate public consciousness. Each marks an important point of contestation within contemporary education and culture: curriculum, pedagogy, literacy, media representations and applications of new technologies.

Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces

Counternarratives

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Paths from Freire

The Politics of Liberation

Julie Coiro

Donald J. Leu

Situated at the intersection of two of the most important areas in educational research today — literacy and technology — this handbook draws on the potential of each while carving out important new territory. It provides leadership for this newly emerging field, directing scholars to the major issues, theoretical perspectives, and interdisciplinary research pertaining to new literacies. Reviews of research are organized into six sections: Methodologies Knowledge and Inquiry Communication Popular Culture, Community, and Citizenship: Everyday Literacies Instructional Practices and Assessment Multiple Perspectives on New Literacies Research FEATURES Brings together a diverse international team of editors and chapter authors Provides an extensive collection of research reviews in a critical area of educational research Makes visible the multiple perspectives and theoretical frames that currently drive work in new literacies Establishes important space for the emerging field of new literacies research Includes a unique Commentary section: The final section of the Handbook reprints five central research studies. Each is reviewed by two prominent researchers from their individual, and different, theoretical position. This provides the field with a sense of how diverse lenses can be brought to bear on research as well as the benefits that accrue from doing so. It also provides models of critical review for new scholars and demonstrates how one might bring multiple perspectives to the study of an area as complex as new literacies research. The Handbook of Research on New Literacies is intended for the literacy research community, broadly conceived, including scholars and students from the traditional reading and writing research communities in education and educational psychology as well as those from information science, cognitive science, psychology, sociolinguistics, computer mediated communication, and other related areas that find literacy to be an important area of investigation.

Handbook of Research on New Literacies

La primera edición en inglés de esta obra pasaba revista a los nuevos alfabetismos, los nuevos tipos de saberes y actividades de clase en el contexto del incremento masivo de las tecnologías digitales de la información y la comunicación. El enorme desarrollo de este campo permitió a sus autores, en el momento en el que esa primera edición se agotó, llevar a cabo una segunda edición, completamente renovada y actualizada. Esta nueva y oportuna versión que, casi simultáneamente, se publica en inglés y español, expone y comenta toda una nueva serie de actividades como el blogueo, la fanfiction, las comunicaciones móviles e inalámbricas y las prácticas fan de remezcla de temas sonoros y visuales. Así, en esta segunda edición revisada y puesta al día, el libro examina: • Prácticas populares y redes sociales relacionadas con fenómenos contemporáneos como Flickr y Wikipedia. • Blogs, podcasts y actividades de comunicación móvil e inalámbrica. • Actividades de escritura en comunidades en línea de fanfiction y manga-anime. • Producción de obras de anime, música y vídeo y de "memes" multimodales. Colin LANKSHEAR y Michele KNOBEL analizan cómo la juventud ha abrazado las tecnologías digitales y las nuevas formas de comunicaciones móviles, y las han integrado en su vida cotidiana. Sostienen que las instituciones escolares ignoran en su propio perjuicio muchas de estas tendencias y exponen cómo puede integrarse eficazmente la movilidad inalámbrica en las pedagogías escolares, prestando la debida atención a los nuevos alfabetismos en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje. Estos nuevos recursos ayudan a conectar el mundo escolar con los intereses y actividades más cotidianos de las chicas y chicos fuera de las aulas.

Nuevos alfabetismos. Su práctica cotidiana y el aprendizaje en el aula

Schools remain notorious for co-opting digital technologies to «business as usual» approaches to teaching new literacies. DIY Media addresses this issue head-on, and describes expansive and creative practices of digital literacy that are increasingly influential and popular in contexts beyond the school, and whose educational potential is not yet being tapped to any significant degree in classrooms. This book is very much concerned with engaging students in do-it-yourself digitally mediated meaning-making practices. As such, it is organized around three broad areas of digital media: moving media, still media, and audio media. Specific DIY media practices addressed in the chapters include machinima, anime music videos, digital photography, podcasting, and music remixing. Each chapter opens with an overview of a specific DIY media practice, includes a practical how-to tutorial section, and closes with suggested applications for classroom settings. This collection will appeal not only to educators, but to anyone invested in better understanding - and perhaps participating in - the significant shift towards everyday people producing their own digital media.

Creating, Sharing and Learning with New Technologies

DIY Media

This book brings together a group of internationally-reputed authors in the field of digital literacy. Their essays explore a diverse range of the concepts, policies and practices of digital literacy, and discuss how digital literacy is related to similar ideas: information literacy, computer literacy, media literacy, functional literacy and digital competence. It is argued that in light of this diversity and complexity, it is useful to think of digital literacies - the plural as well the singular. The first part of the book presents a rich mix of conceptual and policy perspectives; in the second part contributors explore social practices of digital remixing, blogging, online trading and social networking, and consider some legal issues associated with digital media.

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