Böcker i Routledge Research in Literacy-serien

The increasing popularity of digitally-mediated communication is prompting us to radically rethink literacy and its role in education; at the same time, national policies have promulgated a view of literacy focused on the skills and classroom routines associated with print, bolstered by regimes of accountability and assessments. This volume engages researchers in international dialogue around new literacies, their implications for policy and practice, and how they might articulate across national boundaries. Drawing on cutting edge research from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and South Africa, it is a pedagogical and policy-driven call for change.

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns and lives of those who used postcards as an almost instantaneous form of communication.In the early twentieth century, the picture postcard was a revolutionary way of combining short messages with an image, making use of technologies in a way impossible in the decades since, until the advent of the digital revolution. This book offers original insights into the historical and social context in which the Edwardian picture postcard emerged and became a craze. It also expands the field of Literacy Studies by illustrating the combined use of posthuman, multimodal, historic and linguistic methodologies to conduct an in-depth analysis of the communicative, sociolinguistic and relational functions of the postcard. Particular attention is paid to how study of the picture postcard can reveal details of the lives and literacy practices of often overlooked sectors of the population, such as working-class women. The Edwardian era in the United Kingdom was one of extreme inequalities and rapid social change, and picture postcards embodied the dynamism of the times.Grounded in an analysis of a unique, open access, digitized collection of 3,000 picture postcards, this monograph will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of Literacy Studies, sociolinguistics, history of communications and UK social history.

This collection brings together situated research studies of literacy across a range of specific contexts, covering everyday, educational, and workplace domains.

This book presents a new perspective on the assumed links between women's literacy and development and explores current innovative approaches to research and policy around women's literacy.

Research in multimodalities has impacted societies, education systems, and public policies in powerful ways and arguably, the focus on multimodal texts will be central to the most important literacy and learning issues on the current generation. This book focuses specifically on the visual in the everyday, and claims that powerful pedagogies and methodologies can be constructed by focusing on visual texts in previously under-represented contexts. By describing and analyzing visual texts across a broader range of contexts, the book highlights different constructs, issues and emerging questions dealing with the study of literacies and multimodalities.

This collection brings together situated research studies of literacy across a range of specific contexts, covering everyday, educational, and workplace domains.

This book presents a new perspective on the assumed links between women's literacy and development and explores current innovative approaches to research and policy around women's literacy.

The increasing popularity of digitally-mediated communication is prompting us to radically rethink literacy and its role in education; at the same time, national policies have promulgated a view of literacy focused on the skills and classroom routines associated with print, bolstered by regimes of accountability and assessments. This volume engages researchers in international dialogue around new literacies, their implications for policy and practice, and how they might articulate across national boundaries. Drawing on cutting edge research from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and South Africa, it is a pedagogical and policy-driven call for change.

Challenges common and popular depictions of Roma (commonly known as 'Gypsies') literacy by examining Roma literacy rates and the Roma's deep understanding of literacy and its implications, including the use of writing for a range of different purposes.

Using literacy practices in the newly independent post-apartheid Namibia as a lens through which to examine the effects of globalization, this case study looks at issues surrounding tourism, state control and the new forces of consumerism. It considers language practices that can exclude some members of Namibian society.

Movies are filled with scenes of people of all ages, sexes, races, and social classes reading and writing in widely varied contexts and purposes. This book addresses how everyday literacy practices are represented in popular culture, specifically in mainstream, widely-distributed contemporary movies.