Date: 01-Mar-2006 From: Kathryn King <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies: Pahl (Ed), Rowsell (Ed)
Title: Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies
Subtitle: Instances of Practice
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language & Education
Published: 2006
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Editor: Kate Pahl, University of Sheffield
Editor: Jennifer Rowsell, Rutgers University
Hardback: ISBN: 1853598623 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 64.95
Hardback: ISBN: 1853598623 Pages: 288 Price: U.S. $ 119.95
Paperback: ISBN: 1853598615 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 24.95
Paperback: ISBN: 1853598615 Pages: 288 Price: U.S. $ 49.95
Abstract:
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.