Author : Mastin Prinsloo
Release : 2008
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 186/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Literacies, Global and Local by : Mastin Prinsloo
Download or read book Literacies, Global and Local written by Mastin Prinsloo. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles collected in this volume draw on or relate to a body of work that has become known as the 'New Literacy Studies' (NLS), which studies literacy as situated semiotic practices that vary across sites in specific ways that are socially shaped. The collection offers a body of empirically and theoretically based papers on literacy ethnography as well as providing engagements with critical issues around literacy and education. The articles offer complementary perspectives on research and theory in literacy studies and include research perspectives from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, as well as North and South America. The researchers are all concerned to take the work of the New Literacy Studies further by expanding on its conceptual resources and research sites.