1st Edition

Literacy and Education

By James Paul Gee Copyright 2015
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Literacy and Education tells the story of how literacy—starting in the early 1980s—came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one. In this accessible introductory volume, acclaimed scholar James Paul Gee shows readers how literacy "left the mind and wandered out into the world." He traces the ways a sociocultural view of literacy melded with a social view of the... Read more

Series Editor Introduction

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Literacy

Chapter 3: The Social Mind

Chapter 4: Digital Media

References

Index

Biography

James Paul Gee is Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, USA. He is author of a number of books, including An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, fourth edition, Language and Learning in the Digital Age and is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis.