1st Edition
Multiliteracies in Motion Current Theory and Practice
Foreword, Theo van Leeuwen & Gunther Kress
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction to multiliteracies in motion: Current theory and practice, David R. Cole & Darren L. Pullen
Part I: Classrooms and multiliteracies in motion
Chapter Two: Uncritical framing: Lesson and knowledge structure in school science, Beryl Exley & Allan Luke
Chapter Three: Image, voice, and the making of the school-literate child: Lessons from multiliterate teaching in China, Bette Zhang Bin & Peter Freebody
Chapter Four: Introducing multimodal literacy to young children learning English as a Second Language (ESL), Len Unsworth & Robyn Bush
Part II: Multiliteracies theory in motion
Chapter Five: New Media, New Learning, Bill Cope & Mary Kalantzis
Chapter Six: Tracking the relationships between technology and users in multiliteracies theory, David R. Cole & Darren L. Pullen
Chapter Seven: Multiliteracies and the politics of desire, David R. Cole
Part III: The pedagogy of multiliteracies in motion
Chapter Eight: Using the Principles of multiliteracies to inform pedagogical change, Michèle Anstey & Geoff Bull
Chapter Nine: Disrupting traditions: Teachers negotiating multiliteracies and digital technologies, Elizabeth Stolle & Gustavo Fischman
Chapter Ten: Using multiliteracies to facilitate culturally relevant pedagogy in the classroom, Louanne Smolin & Kimberly Lawless
Part IV: Multiliteracies in practice
Chapter Eleven: Multiliteracies and assessment practice, Ian Brown, Lori Lockyer & Peter Caputi
Chapter Twelve: Young Australians reading in a digital world, Jennifer Rennie & Annette Patterson
Chapter Thirteen: Multiliteracies: Resources for meaning-making in the secondary English classroom, Douglas McClenaghan & Brenton Doecke
Chapter Fourteen: A virtual school for rethinking learning, Julie Faulkner & Gloria Latham
Afterword, Donna E. Alvermann
Contributors
Biography
David R. Cole is Senior Lecturer in English & Pedagogy, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Darren Pullen is Lecturer in ICT, Health Science and Professional Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania, Australia.
"…the authors featured in this collection present a compelling argument for change in educational practices, which would enable students to acquire skills that are appropriate to the complex demands of their everyday lives, while allowing them to utilize the multiliteracy skills they already possess….For educators, the collected essays in Multiliteracies in Motion offer a thought-provoking examination of the meaning of literacy in the world today."--Afterimage
"Multiliteracies in Motion: Current theory and practice makes an excellent contribution to understanding the nature of literacy in the 21st century....[the book] opens up our minds to change and introduces us to the challenge of emerging media and diverse ways of teaching literacy. Readers will discover new insights, prompted by the research and thinking of this diverse collection of scholarship."--University of Technology, Sydney
