Product Description
Multiliteracies in Education – South African Perspectives
Authors: A Engelbrecht, G Genis
Format: Physical Hardcopy
Educational preparation is currently steered by two oppositional forces in contemporary society: global connectedness and local diversity. The traditional notion that literacy entails the technical ability to decode abstract letters in order to recognise and form words and sentences is contested by the pedagogy of multiliteracies – that there is a wealth of linguistic and cultural pluralism in the world and that people can be part of multiple life contexts that overlap in interest, affiliation and education. Multiliteracies in Education develops a pedagogical framework to weave multiliteracies into the fabric of the South African classroom.
Multiliteracies in Education takes the approach that knowledge is contextually situated and rapidly changing and diverse, which calls for new skills and flexibility, and the ability to work in teams. Chapters are sequenced according to the four pillars of the multiliteracies framework: overt instruction, situated practice, critical framing and transformed practice.
Contents include the following:
Multiliteracies in Education is aimed at literacy scholars, student teachers as well as in-service educators.
Features:
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The evolution of literacy to literacies
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Creating classrooms without walls
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Developing cultural literacy
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Multimodal literacy in practice
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Technological literacy
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Historical literacy
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Visual culture literacy
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Meaning-making in design
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Multiple thinking skills
Contents:
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CHAPTER 1: Introduction and orientation
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CHAPTER 2: Multiliteracies as a post-graduate module
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CHAPTER 3: Developing cultural literacy through service learning in teacher education
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CHAPTER 4: Multimodal literacy
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CHAPTER 5: Technological literacy
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CHAPTER 6: Historical literacy as a component of multiliteracies with reference to electronic gaming
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CHAPTER 7: Visual culture literacy: seeing is be.[lie].ving. – creating visual arguments through multimodal and multiliteracies pedagogy
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CHAPTER 8: Meaning-making in design: a practical approach to exploring multiliteracy
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CHAPTER 9: Linking multiple intelligence and thinking
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