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New Literacies: Everyday Practices And Social Learning

Everyday Practices and Social Learning

By: Lankshear, Colin,Knobel, Michele

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New Literacies: Everyday Practices And Social Learning

Everyday Practices and Social Learning

By: Lankshear, Colin,Knobel, Michele

This timely new edition explores new literacies, knowledge and classroom practices in light of growing electronic information and communication techniques.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335242162

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EBOOK: CHANGING LITERACIES

By: Colin Lankshear

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....undeterred by sociological pessimism, Colin Lankshear hacks away at the underbrush, clearing a path for a new critical-liberatory discourse" James Paul Gee, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. This book explores everyday social practices and how they influence who people are, what they become, the quality of their lives, the opportunities and possibilities open to them, and those they are denied. It focusses especially on language and literacy components of social practices, asking: How are language and literacy framed within different social practices? How are social practices in turn shaped and framed by language and literacy? What are the consequences for the lives and identities of individuals and groups? How can we understand these relationships, and build on this understanding to develop critical forms of literacy and language awareness that enhance human dignity, freedom and social justice? In addressing these questions the book draws on social practices from diverse settings: from classrooms using conventional texts to so-called "enchanted workplaces"; from a Third World peasant cooperative enterprise to modern technologically-equipped homes and classrooms. The result is a rich sociocultural account of language and literacy, which challenges narrow psychological and skills-based approaches, and provides an excellent theory base for informing the practice of literacy educators. It will be compelling reading for academics, teachers and students of language and literacy education, critical literacy, discourse studies and cultural studies.

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033523206X

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A Handbook For Teacher Research

By: Lankshear, Colin,Knobel, Michele

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A Handbook For Teacher Research

By: Lankshear, Colin,Knobel, Michele

A comprehensive approach to teacher research as systematic, methodical and informed practice. It identifies five generic features that must be present in all kinds of research, and provides guidelines for teachers to meet these in studies designed to enhance their vocation as educators.

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0335210643

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A Handbook for Teacher Research

By: Colin Lankshear,Michele Knobel

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A Handbook for Teacher Research

By: Colin Lankshear,Michele Knobel

“This informative book helped me to understand research in general and to bring focus and clarity to my current research project. The text answers questions and provides guidance and support in a manner that is user-friendly and easy to comprehend…. After reading this book, I feel empowered as a teacher-researcher and would unhesitatingly recommend it to other teacher-researchers, graduate students and educators.”Francesca Crowther – teacher and doctoral student, Nova Scotia, Canada. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed approach to teacher research as systematic, methodical and informed practice. It identifies five requirements for all kinds of research, and provides clear and accessible guidelines for teachers to use in conducting their own classroom-based studies. Features: A clear definition of teacher research which insists on more than ‘stories’ and anecdotal ‘retrospectives’ Innovative organisational structure based on the collection and analysis of spoken, written and observed data, with strong emphasis on the design of research projects Easy-to-use and widely applicable tools and techniques for collecting and analysing data in qualitative research Informed by the authors’ own wide-ranging experiences, A Handbook of Teacher Research provides everything the teacher researcher needs in order to conduct good quality practitioner research. It is ideal for upper level undergraduate Education programmes and for postgraduate research, as well as for teacher researchers who conceive and drive their own independent studies.

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EBOOK: CHANGING LITERACIES

By: Colin Lankshear

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Counternarratives

Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces

By: Henry A. Giroux,Colin Lankshear,Peter McLaren,Michael Peters

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Counternarratives

Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces

By: Henry A. Giroux,Colin Lankshear,Peter McLaren,Michael Peters

To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate the extent to which our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between "official" narratives and the counternarratives which emerge as oppositional responses. Counternarratives develops a concept of "postmodern counternarratives" as a frame for exploring the politics of media, technology and education within everyday struggles for human identities and loyalties. The authors identify two forms of counternarratives. One functions as a critique of the modernist propensity for grand narratives. The second concept, which is the focus of the book, builds on the first; the idea of "little stories" addressing cultural and political opposition to the "official" narratives used to manipulate public consciousness. Each marks an important point of contestation within contemporary education and culture: curriculum, pedagogy, literacy, media representations and applications of new technologies.

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New Literacies: Everyday Practices And Social Learning

Everyday Practices and Social Learning

By: Lankshear, Colin,Knobel, Michele

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New Literacies: Everyday Practices And Social Learning

Everyday Practices and Social Learning

By: Lankshear, Colin,Knobel, Michele

This timely new edition explores new literacies, knowledge and classroom practices in light of growing electronic information and communication techniques.

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Spatial Theories of Education

Policy and Geography Matters

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,Colin Symes

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Spatial Theories of Education

Policy and Geography Matters

By: Kalervo N. Gulson,Colin Symes

This collection of original work, within the sociology of education, draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory. The premise of this book is that drawing on theories of space allows for a more sophisticated understanding of the competing rationalities underlying educational policy change, social inequality and cultural practices. The contributors work a spatial dimension into the consideration of educational phenomena and illustrate its explanatory potential in a range of domains: urban renewal, globalisation, race, markets and school choice, suburbanisation, regional and rural settings, and youth and student culture.

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1134139616

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Using Technology to Improve Reading and Learning

By: Colin Harrison,Bernadette Dwyer

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Using Technology to Improve Reading and Learning

By: Colin Harrison,Bernadette Dwyer

Discover how to effectively use technology to support students' literacy development. New classroom uses for technology are introduced in this easy-to-use resource that help educators enhance students' attention, engagement, creativity, and collaboration in reading and learning. Great for struggling readers, this book provides strategies for making content-area connections and using digital tools to develop reading comprehension.

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1425813143

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9781425813147

Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain

Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew

By: Henry Colin Gray Matthew

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Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain

Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew

By: Henry Colin Gray Matthew

In the last twenty years one of the classical arenas for British historical writing - the politics of Victorian Britain - has ceased to be an obvious or self-evidently important subject. Facing up to this challenge, the historians who have contributed to this volume explore central aspects of that history. They continue to uphold the centrality of politics to Victorian Britain, but suggest that politics must be viewed more broadly, as a concern pervading almost all spheres oflife, just as Victorians themselves would have done. In this way politics penetrates into Victorian culture. 'Politics' can lead us into the ideas governing political action itself; political ideas; international relations; the eduction of men and women; the writing of history and of literature;engagement with past political theorists; and the ideas behind professionalization. Such are some of the themes taken up here.The specific occasion for these essays was as a tribute to the memory of the late Colin Matthew, one of the most eminent recent historians of Victorian Britain, who was himself determined to uphold the contemporary relevance of Victorian political tradition, and to explore the interface between 'politics' and 'culture'. Reflection on his intellectual achievement is a second distinctive component of this book.

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Oxford University Press

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0199253455

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Working Knowledge

The New Vocationalism and Higher Education

By: Symes, Colin,McIntyre, John

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Working Knowledge

The New Vocationalism and Higher Education

By: Symes, Colin,McIntyre, John

This book analyses the development of work based learning from a number of perspectives: critical, historical, philosophical, sociological and pedagogical. Its various contributors argue that work-based approaches contain much that is challenging to the university, and also much that could help to create new frameworks of learning and new roles for academics.

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0335212549

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Knowledge & Discourse

Towards an Ecology of Language

By: Colin Barron,Nigel Bruce,David Nunan

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Knowledge & Discourse

Towards an Ecology of Language

By: Colin Barron,Nigel Bruce,David Nunan

Knowledge and Discourse presents an ecological approach to the study of discourse in social, academic and professional practices. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse cultures - India, China, Australia, Canada among others - and disciplines - linguistics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy. The chapters collectively illustrate the ecological approach by exploring how language makes connections between subjective experiences as people construct meaning and action. This book offers the reader a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of language as discourse, questioning traditional views of disciplinary knowledge and the role of discourse in the pursuit, construction and compartmentalisation of such knowledge. Through the variety of disciplines, experiences and approaches, the contributors show how the world and word are contingent on each other. The notions of connectivity, contingency and change are themes that run through the book, and in the interweaving of these themes readers will find persuasive illustrations of an ecological approach to applied linguistics.

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1317881265

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Counternarratives

Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces

By: Henry A. Giroux,Colin Lankshear,Peter McLaren,Michael Peters

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Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces

By: Henry A. Giroux,Colin Lankshear,Peter McLaren,Michael Peters

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New Literacies

Changing Knowledge in the Classroom

By: Colin Lankshear,Michele Knobel

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New Literacies

Changing Knowledge in the Classroom

By: Colin Lankshear,Michele Knobel

The World Has Changed—So Should the Way You Teach This thought-provoking book argues that education has failed to take into account how much the world has changed since the information technology revolution and that education requires a totally new mindset to become relevant. The authors describe the new social practices and new literacies associated with a digital world and offer suggestions on where change should occur.

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Open University Press

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033522010X

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9780335220106

The New Work Order

By: James Gee,Glynda Hull,Colin Lankshear

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The New Work Order

By: James Gee,Glynda Hull,Colin Lankshear

Workplace democracy. Empowerment. Team leaders. Knowledge workers. This is the language of “the new work order” promoted by today's management, which promises more meaningful and satisfying work, greater respect for diversity, and more democratic distribution of knowledge.But Gee, Hull, and Lankshear find startling contradictions in this brave new workplace—escalating inequality between individuals, nations, and even continents. They show how newly created alliances between business, educators, and psychologists may point to a hidden capitalist agenda more interested in preserving the status quo than establishing a new work order.This book offers a compelling and controversial account of global capitalism in the information age and the ways it affects language, literacy, learning, and life chances. It will be of particular interest to students in education, business, sociology, sociolinguistics, and communication studies.

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Westview Press

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0813332613

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9780813332611

Ways of Knowing

Researching Literacy

By: Michele Knobel,Colin Lankshear

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Ways of Knowing

Researching Literacy

By: Michele Knobel,Colin Lankshear

Ways of knowing: researching literacy.

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1875622330

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9781875622337

Teachers and Technoliteracy

Managing Literacy, Technology and Learning in Schools

By: Colin Lankshear,Ilana Snyder,Bill Green

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Teachers and Technoliteracy

Managing Literacy, Technology and Learning in Schools

By: Colin Lankshear,Ilana Snyder,Bill Green

Teachers and Technoliteracy examines the use of technology in education. Drawing on detailed case studies, the authors show how schools in different settings can establish sustainable and appropriate technology infrastructure. They also show how to develop teaching practices which not only enhance technology skills but a range of literacy skills as well. Analysis of education technology policy reveals how a working understanding of policy is crucial to making the right technology decisions in schools." "Teachers and Technoliteracy is a valuable professional reference for school principals and for teachers working with technology. It is also an excellent student text for university courses on computers and education."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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St. Leonards, NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin

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1864489464

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9781864489460

The New Work Order

Behind the Language of the New Capitalism

By: James Paul Gee,Glynda Hull,Colin Lankshear

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The New Work Order

Behind the Language of the New Capitalism

By: James Paul Gee,Glynda Hull,Colin Lankshear

Offers an analysis of what the authors describe as the new work order, theories which have swept the business world in the past few years emphasizing on-the-job learning, worker empowerment, collaboration, participatory decision making and so on. The authors argue that these enchanted workplaces are not as democratic or empowering as the rhetoric would have us believe, and that adult educators in particular need to be aware of the way in which this fast capitalism is disempowering certain groups.

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1864480521

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