Situated Literacies: Theorising Reading and Writing in Context

by Mary Hamilton (Editor), David Barton (Editor), RozIvanic (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $4.34

  Situated Literacies is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices.
  Detailed ethnographic studies of a wide variety of specific situations, all involving real texts and lived practices, are balanced with general claims about the nature of literacy. Contributors address a coherent set of issues:
  * the visual and material aspects of literacy
  * concepts of time and space in relation to literacy
  * the functions of literacies in shaping and sustaining identities in communities of practice
  * the relationship between texts and the practices associated with their use
  the role of discourse analysis on literacy studies
  These studies, along with a foreword by Denny Taylor, make a timely and important contribution to literacy theory and suggest directions for the further development of the field. Situated Literacies is essential reading for anyone involved in literary education.

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $58.87

  Situated Literacies is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices.
  Detailed ethnographic studies of a wide variety of specific situations, all involving real texts and lived practices, are balanced with general claims about the nature of literacy. Contributors address a coherent set of issues:
  * the visual and material aspects of literacy
  * concepts of time and space in relation to literacy
  * the functions of literacies in shaping and sustaining identities in communities of practice
  * the relationship between texts and the practices associated with their use
  the role of discourse analysis on literacy studies
  These studies, along with a foreword by Denny Taylor, make a timely and important contribution to literacy theory and suggest directions for the further development of the field. Situated Literacies is essential reading for anyone involved in literary education.