Literacies / Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The work of learning and teaching literacies -- Old basics and new -- The two 'multis' of multiliteracies -- Agendas of literacies -- Communication and representation -- Literacies as tools for meaning -- New literacies, new schools, new teachers -- Today's learners -- Tomorrow's teachers -- How this book is organised -- Guiding narrative -- Supplementary web materials -- Part A. The 'Why' of Literacies : -- 1. Literacies on a human scale : -- Overview -- Three globalisations -- First languages -- The languages of the first globalisation -- how and why they are so different -- The decline and death of first languages -- Exploring the differences between first languages -- First languages and multimodal communications -- Starting to write -- A second globalisation -- The coming of writing -- How writing affects human life -- Literacy and social pressures to uniformity -- Writing becomes a privileged mode of meaning -- The cultural effects of writing -- New media, new literacies -- The third globalisation -- The rise of new communications technologies -- Writing loses its privileged place -- Language differences become important again -- New media accessibility -- Summary -- Knowledge processes -- Keywords -- 2. The purposes of literacies : -- Overview -- Why literacies? -- Literacies and opportunity -- anging literacies for changing times -- Literacies for work -- Literacies for the 'knowledge society' -- The post-Fordist workplace -- The new language of work -- Facing challenging futures -- Communications skills for the new workplace -- Literacies for citizenship -- Literacy in the era of nationalism -- Globalisation and diversity -- The changing status of government in society -- New literacies for new citizenship -- Literacies for contemporary community life -- Literacies and diverse identities -- The 'balance of agency' in the new communications environment -- Living and communicating in diverse communities -- New literacies for changing times -- Summary -- Knowledge processes -- Keywords -- Part B. Approaches to Literacies : -- 3. Didactic literacy pedagogy : -- Overview -- On the paradigms of literacies -- The contents of literacy knowledge -- formal rules, correct usage, reading for one meaning, and appreciating the literary canon -- Synthetic phonics -- Traditional grammar -- 'Correct' usage -- Naming language structures -- Extending vocabulary -- Reading comprehension -- Reading fluency -- Literature appreciation -- The organisation of literacy curriculum -- following the syllabus, the textbook and the teacher -- Delivering structured and sequenced knowledge -- Applying objective thinking -- Learners doing literacy -- copying, repetition, memorisation and applying rules -- Copying -- Formulae and repetition -- Memory work -- The social relationships of literacy learning -- authority in language knowledge -- Testing literacy -- Valuing conformity -- Summary -- Knowledge processes -- Keywords.

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