Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies: Instances of Practice (New Perspectives on Language and Education, 4)

Review This book is an excellent edited collection that focuses on the New Literacy Studies as well as, and in relation to, other theoretical orientations. This book does a first-rate job in the way it uses specific instances from the authors’ data to argue that literacy does work in multiple, complex ways. ― Dana J. Wilber, Montclair State University, in E-Learning Volume 3, Number 4This book is an excellent read because of the quality of its content and the clarity with which its ideas are presented. ― Alex Poole, Western Kentucky University, in Language, Culture and Curriculum 20:1Pahl and Rowsell have produced a timely theoretical integration that establishes leadership on the cutting edge of literacy research. "Travel Notes" is a valuable book for any literacy researcher or classroom teacher's library. ― Joanne Larson, Associate Professor and Chair, Teaching and Curriculum University of RochesterThis exciting collection of studies locates the study of literacy in broader communicative practices. Each study is a pleasure to read and takes our understanding forward. ― Dr David Barton, Director, Literacy Research Centre, University of Lancaster Product Description This book joins two important fields, that of literacy and multimodality, with a focus on local and global literacies. Chapters include work on media, popular culture and literacy, weblogs, global and local crossings, in and out of educational settings in such locations as the US, the UK, South Africa, Australia and Canada. About the Author Kate Pahl is Professor of Arts and Literacy at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author, with Jennifer Rowsell, Diane Collier, Steve Pool, Zanib Rasool and Terry Trzecak, of ‘Living Literacies: Literacy for Social Change’ (MIT Press 2020). Her work is concerned with community literacy practices, and she is interested in co-production together with arts practice as methodologies to work with diverse communities. Her current projects include a book about collaborative interdisciplinary research, to be published with Policy Press and a book on the intersections between multimodality and multilingualism to be published by Multilingual Matters.Jennifer Rowsell is an Assistant Professor of English Education at Rutgers University where she teaches and conducts research in the areas of New Literacy Studies and multiliteracies. She has co-authored Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy Studies in the Classroom (Sage, 2005) with Kate Pahl and The Literacy Principal with David Booth (Pembroke, 2002). Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Travel Notes from the New Literacy StudiesInstances of PracticeBy Kate Pahl, Jennifer RowsellMultilingual MattersCopyright © 2006 Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell and the authors of individual chaptersAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-85359-862-3ContentsForeword Gunther Kress and Brian Street, Introduction Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell, Part 1: Identity in Multimodal Communicative Practices, 1 Global, Local/Public, Private: Young Children's Engagement in Digital Literacy Practices in the Home Jackie Marsh, 2 Ned and Kevin: An Online Discussion that Challenges the 'Not-Yet Adult' Cultural Model Donna E. Alvermann, 3 Escaping to the Borderlands: An Exploration of the Internet as a Cultural Space for Teenaged Wiccan Girls Julia Davies, 4 Weblog Worlds and Constructions of Effective and Powerful Writing: Cross with Care, and Only Where Signs Permit Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear, Part 2: Multimodal Literacy Practices in Local and Global Spaces, 5 Critical Literacy Across Continents Hilary Janks and Barbara Comber, 6 An Eye on the Text and an Eye on the Future: Multimodal Literacy in Three Johannesburg Families Pippa Stein and Lynne Slonimsky, 7 Crossing the Margins: Literacy, Semiotics and the Recontextualisation of Meanings Cathy Kell, Part 3: Crossings in Literacy Practices, 8 From Boardroom to Classroom: Tracing a Globalised