1st Edition

Pedagogy of Multiliteracies Rewriting Goldilocks

By Heather Lotherington Copyright 2011
236 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2012! Based on case studies from public schools in Toronto, Canada, this book chronicles an inspiring five-year journey to develop thinking about and teaching literacy for the 21st century. The research, which was classroom-based and developed by public school teachers in collaboration with university researchers, was stimulated by an ethnographic study at... Read more

1. In Pursuit of a Pedagogy of Multiliteracies  2. Competing Visions of Language and Literacy Education: Theory, Policy and New Directions for Practice  3. Rewriting Goldilocks and the Three Bears  4. Goldilocks Revisited: Telling Old Stories in New Ways  5. Genre-Bending: Transcoding Narratives  6. Creating Dialogic Spaces for Learning  7. Multimodality, Language Inclusion, and Third Space  8. Towards an Emergent Pedagogy of Multiliteracies

Biography

Heather Lotherington is Professor of Multilingual Education at York University.

"Lotherington's study presents a new vision of multimodal literacy coherent with the social world that the children will inherit in the future. This project also supports home language maintenance and English-language learning as children acquire the agency to retell their version of a story imprinting their cultural stamp. This book is a must read for teachers and teacher educators concerned about how to foster critical engagement in the literacy classroom. Summing Up: Essential." - L. Lockard, Northern Arizona University, in CHOICE