Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies

Foreword by Gunther Kress (Institute of Education) and Brian Street (King's College, London)



Introduction by Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell



SECTION I: IDENTITY IN MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICES



1. Global, Local/Public, Private: Young Children's Engagement in Digital Literacy Practices in the Home - Jackie Marsh (University of Sheffield)



2. Ned and Kevin: An Online Discussion that Challenges the 'Not-Yet Adult' Cultural Model - Donna Alvermann (University of Georgia)



3. Escaping to the Borderlands: An Exploration of the Internet as a Cultural Space for Teenaged Wiccan Girls - Julia Davies (University of Sheffield)



4. Weblog Worlds and Constructions of Effective and Powerful Writing: Cross with Care, and Only Where Signs Permit - Michele Knobel (Montclair State University) and Colin Lankshear (James Cook University)



SECTION II: MULTIMODAL LITERACY PRACTICES IN LOCAL AND GLOBAL SPACES



5. Critical Literacy Across Continents - Hilary Janks (University of Witwatersrand) and Barbara Comber (University of South Australia)



6. An Eye on the Text and an Eye on the Future: Multimodal Literacy in Three Gauteng Families - Pippa Stein and Lynne Slominsky (University of Witwatersrand)



7. Crossing the Margins: Recontextualisation, Literacy and Semiotic Power? - Cathy Kell (University of Auckland)



SECTION II: CROSSINGS IN LITERACY PRACTICES



8. From Boardroom to Classroom: Tracing a Globalised Discourse on Thinking through Internet Texts and Teaching Practice - Sue Nichols (University of South Australia)



9. Corporate Crossings: Tracing Textual Crossings - Jennifer Rowsell



SECTION IV: MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICES IN PEDAGOGICAL SETTINGS



10. So, What About Multimodal Numeracies? - Brian Street (King's College, London) and Dave Baker (Institute of Education)



11. Transformative Pedagogy: Teachers Creating a Literacy of Fusion - Elaine Millard (University of Sheffield)



Afterword: Deborah Brandt and Katie Clinton (University of Wisconsin-Madison)