1st Edition

Languages and Literacies as Mobile and Placed Resources

Edited By Sue Nichols, Collette Snowden Copyright 2017
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Languages and Literacies as Mobile and Placed Resources explores how languages and literacies are implicated in the complex relationship between place and mobility. It is a book that represents the next wave in literacy studies in which theories of mobility, networking and globalisation have emerged to account for the dynamic landscape of globally circulating communication resources. Authors... Read more
1. Introduction: Languages and literacies as mobile and placed resources. Susan Nichols  2. But they didn’t win the Super Bowl! Printed t-shirts as place/d resources. David Caldwell  3. The parenting magazine as g/local genre: The mobilisation of childhoods Susan Nichols  4. Shut in and shut up: Consequences of workplace confinement for journalists. Collette Snowden  5. Literacies as placed resources in the context of rural community members’ everyday lives: The case of Bweyale in Uganda. George Openjuru  6. Literacy, sustainability and landscapes for learning. Lyn Kerkham  7. ‘They are of very imperfect quality’: Slates as material and placed resources in a Sydney school, 1887-1889. Phil Cormack  8. Circuits, astronauts, and dancing oranges: Documenting networked knowledge on tablets. Jennifer Rowsell & Tiffany Gallagher  9. Mobilising literacy policy through resources. Jenni Carter  10. Catalysing learning with placed English resources: An issue of TEFL in early childhood education. Zheng Lin  11. A place for students’ multilingual resources in an Australian high school. Mei French and Michele De Courcy  12. Silence as literacy and silence as mobility: Australian students shifting learning modes in foreign language learning Dat Bao & Phan Le Ha  13. Global Englishes as placed resources. Doan Ba Ngoc  14. Languages as contextualised resources: Chinese-speaking pre-service language teachers using Chinese and English in the academic writing process Huang Yusheng  15. Shaping a digital academic writing resource in a transcultural space. Monica Behrend

Biography

Sue Nichols is a Senior Lecturer in Literacy Education and also Director of the Multiliteracies and Global Englishes Research Group at the University of South Australia.

Collette Snowden is a Strategic Leader, International and Industry, and Lecturer in Public Relations at the University of South Australia