DAVID BARTON

Broschiertes Buch

Literacy 2e

Beschreibung

Exploring recent developments and new research that have contributed to our understanding of literacy practices, this book provides a rounded introduction to the growing field of literacy studies. David Barton reflects on the interdisciplinary growth of the study of reading and writing over the past decade, distinguishing between the competing definitions of literacy in contemporary society, and examining the language and learning theories which underpin them. Since the publication of the first edition there have been many detailed studies of literacy practices in different settings. This second edition brings the book up to date by summarizing this new research, and showing how it has contributed to our understanding of literacy. The second edition now features a new section on how literacy research is carried out, and explores the use of new technologies. Additional material on cross-cultural perspectives, extensive references to new research, and information detailing current educational policy are also included.

Autor

David Barton is Professor of Language and Literacy and Director of the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University. His publications include Beyond Communities of Practice (co-edited with Karin Tusting, 2005), Letter Writing as a Social Practice (co-edited with Nigel Hall, 2000), and Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community (with Mary Hamilton, 1998).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• 2nd edition
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9781405111430
• ISBN-10: 1405111437
• Artikelnr.: 22322096

Rezensionen

"David Barton is a major player in the rapidly expanding field ofliteracy studies. In the first edition of Literacy, hebrought to the attention of new audiences the research andapproaches to literacy signalled by terms such as 'socialpractice', 'ethnographic', 'situated', and 'embedded' literacies.His own 'ecological' approach provides a coherent and insightfulway of bringing together such understandings across many fields.This book will be an invaluable companion to all of thoseinterested in literacy - policy makers, teachers, academics, andjournalists - and it will continue to challenge many of thedominant stereotypes with which they otherwise have to work."Brian V. Street, King's College London

"I have profited in my own thinking about literacy from thisbook... It is a marvellous achievement." Michael Cole,University of Californina, San Diego (of the previousedition)