New Literacies: Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning - Couverture rigide

Lankshear, Colin; Knobel, Michele

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0335210678 ISBN 13 : 9780335210671

Editeur : Open University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Literacy education continues to be dominated by a mindset that has passed its use-by date. Education has failed to take account of how much the world has changed during the information technology revolution. It proceeds as though the world is the same as before - just somewhat more technologized. This is the hallmark of an "outsider" mindset. In fact, qualitatively new literacies and new kinds of knowledge associated with digitally saturated social practices abound. "Insiders" understand this, "outsiders" do not. Yet "outsider" perspectives still dominate educational directions. Meanwhile, student "insiders" endure learning experiences that mystify, bemuse, alienate and miseducate them. This book describes new social practices and new literacies, along with kinds of knowledge associated with them. It shows what is at stake between "outsider" and "insider" mindsets, argues that education requires a shift in mindset, and suggests how and where pursuit of progressive change might begin.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Colin Lankshear is Professor of Literacy and New Technologies at James Cook University, Australia, Visiting Scholar at McGill University, Canada, and an Adjunct Teacher at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0335210678
• ISBN 13: 9780335210671
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible