Literacy Theories for the Digital Age: Social, Critical, Multimodal, Spatial, Material and Sensory Lenses eBook

Winner of the 2017 Edward Fry Book Award from the Literacy Research Association.

Literacy Theories for the Digital Age insightfully brings together six essential approaches to literacy research and educational practice. The book provides powerful and accessible theories for readers, including Socio-cultural, Critical, Multimodal, Socio-spatial, Socio-material and Sensory Literacies. The brand new Sensory Literacies approach is an original and visionary contribution to the field, coupled with a provocative foreword from leading sensory anthropologist David Howes. This dynamic collection explores a legacy of literacy research while showing the relationships between each paradigm, highlighting their complementarity and distinctions. This highly relevant compendium will inspire researchers and teachers to explore new frontiers of thought and practice in times of diversity and technological change.

Literacy Theories for the Digital Age Social, Critical, Multimodal, Spatial, Material and Sensory Lenses 1st Edition by Dr. Kathy A. Mills and Publisher Multilingual Matters (NBN). Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9781783094646, 1783094648. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9781783094615, 1783094613.