Digital communication has transformed literacy practices and assumed great importance in
the functioning of workplace, recreational, and community contexts. This article reviews a …

Winner of the 2017 Edward Fry Book Award from the Literacy Research Association.
Literacy Theories for the Digital Age insightfully brings together six essential approaches to …

With different pedagogic practices come different ways of examining them and fresh
understandings of their implications and assumptions. It is the examination of these changes …

The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new
understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy …

Hypertext, e-mail, word processing: electronic technologies have revolutionized textual
practices. How does language on screen work differently from language on the page? What …

Explicitly linking curriculum inquiry to English education via recurring themes of
representation, democracy and knowledge, this book is a call for both researchers and …

The conception of literacy is changing to reflect the profound economic, social, political and
cultural changes of the past half century. In this report, the authors examine three broad …

Ungerechtigkeit reproduziert sich selbst. In keinem anderen entwickelten Land ist der
Bildungserfolg von Schülerinnen und Schülern derart abhängig von sozioökonomischen …

Educational policy is often dismissed as simply rhetoric and a collection of half truths.
However, this is to underestimate the power of rhetoric and the ways in which rhetorical …

This chapter is deliberately subtitled 'postmodern perspectives' since we take the view that
there is no single or simple definition of the 'postmodern'. It is itself a contested area and as …