Multiliteracies
Subtitle: literacy learning and the design of social futures
By: edited by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis for the New London Group
Contributors: New London Group
Series: Literacies; Literacies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780203979402
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Study and teaching; Social Science; Multiculturalism; Education; English language; Literacy
Description: This book considers the future of literacy teaching in the context of the rapidly changing English language. It is a coherent, accessible overview with well-known international contributors bringing together their experiences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-348) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Multiliteracies : the beginnings of an idea  -- Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis; title: Pedagogy of Multiliteracies designing social futures  -- New London Group; title: New people in new worlds : networks, the new capitalism and schools  -- James Paul Gee; title: Cyber-schooling and technological change : Multiliteracies for new times  -- Carmen Luke; title: Multiliteracies and multilingualism  -- Joseph Lo Bianco; title: History, cultural diversity and English language teaching  -- Martin Nakata; title: Changing the role of schools  -- Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope; title: Design and transformation : new theories of meaning  -- Gunther Kress; title: Multiliteracies and language : orders of discourse and intertextuality  -- Norman Fairclough; title: Multimodality  -- Gunther Kress; title: Designs for social futures  -- Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis; title: Multiliteracies pedagogy : a pedagogical supplement  -- Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope; title: Taking cultural differences into account  -- Courtney B. Cazden; title: Narratives and inscriptions : cultural tools, power and powerful sense-making  -- Sarah Michaels and Richard Sohmer; title: Multiliteracies Project : South African teachers respond  -- Denise Newfield and Pippa Stein; title: Negotiating a pedagogy of Multiliteracies : the communication curriculum in a South African management development programme  -- David Bond; title: Four innovative programmes : a postscript from Alice Springs -- Courtney B. Cazden.