Situated Literacies: Reading and Writing in ContextDavid Barton, Mary Hamilton, Roz Ivanič Situated Literacies is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices. |
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... role of discourse analysis in literacy studies. Together these studies, along with a foreword by Denny Taylor, make a timely and important contribution to understanding the ways in which literary practices are part of broader social ...
... role of texts in the construction and maintenance of Catholic identity. Her interests lie in developing the study of language as social practice through combining literacy studies and critical discourse analysis. Her background is in ...
... role of visual data in social research, and in particular the sorts of information that can be derived from studying media images of social phenomena. The main part of her paper consists of an analysis of 400 media images of literacy ...
... more sophisticated notions of the role of discourse in shaping the function and meaning of reading and writing activities. The studies in this book have grown out of, and are part of, this continuing exploration INTRODUCTION.
... role of literacy practices in articulating the links between individual people's everyday experience, and broader social institutions and structures. In the final chapter, 'New literacy studies at the interchange', Karin Tusting, Roz ...
Contents
LITERACY PRACTICES | 7 |
EXPANDING THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES Using photographs to explore literacy as social practice | 16 |
THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES AND TIME An exploration | 35 |
THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THIRDSPACE THEORY Borderland Discourse and the inbetween literacies of prisons | 54 |
BECOMING JUST ANOTHER ALPHANUMERIC CODE Farmers encounters with the literacy and discourse practices of agricultural bureaucracy at ... | 68 |
TEXTS IN PRACTICES Interpreting the physical characteristics of childrens project work | 89 |
FAMILY LITERACY A pedagogy for the future? | 104 |
EMERGENT LITERACY PRACTICES IN AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNITY | 121 |
RESPECT AND THE PURSUIT OF SYMMETRY IN RESEARCHING LITERACY AND STUDENT WRITING | 145 |
RESEARCHING LITERACY PRACTICES Learning from activities with teachers and students | 163 |
THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES From socially situated to the work of the social | 176 |
THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES Context intertextuality and discourse | 193 |
NEW LITERACY STUDIES AT THE INTERCHANGE | 206 |
INDEX | 215 |
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