List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I
The foundations of literacy studies
1 The social and linguistic turns in studying language and literacy
2 The New Literacy Studies
3 Postcolonial approaches to literacy: understanding the other
4 Critical literacy education: a kaleidoscopic view of the field
5 Bi/multilingual literacies in literacy studies
PART II
Space-focused approaches
6 Socio-spatial approaches to literacy studies: rethinking the social constitution and politics of space
7 Ecological approaches to literacy research
8 Rural literacies: text and content beyond the metropolis
9 Urban literacies
10 Indigenous literacies in literacy studies
11 Faith literacies
PART III
Time-focused approaches
12 Historical inquiry in literacy education: calling on clio
13 Postmodernism and literacy studies
14 Longitudinal studies and literacy studies
15 Literacy policy and curriculum
PART IV
Multimodal approaches
16 Multimodal social semiotics: writing in online contexts
17 The semiotic mobility of literacy: four analytical approaches
18 Remaking meaning across modes in literacy studies
19 Multimodality and sensory ethnographies
20 Cultural affordances of visual mode texts in and of Japanese landscapes and young children's emerging comprehension of semiotic texts
21 Social design literacies: designing action literacies for fast-changing lives
PART V
Digital approaches
22 Popular culture, digital worlds and second language learners
23 Videogames and literacies: historical threads and contemporary practices
24 Virtual spaces in literacy studies
25 Consumer literacies and virtual world games
26 Facebook narratives
PART VI
Hermeneutic approaches
27 Literary theory and new literacy studies: conversations across fields
28 Looking good: aesthetics, multimodality and literacy studies
29 Poetry, metaphor and performance: literacy as a philosophical act
30 Phenomenology and literacy studies
31 Hermeneutics of literacy pedagogy
PART VII
Making meaning from the everyday
32 Materialising literacies
33 Moving voices: literacy narratives in a testimonial culture
34 (Im)materialising literacies
35 English language learners, participatory ethnography and embodied knowing within literacy
36 Making, remaking, and reimagining the everyday: play, creativity, and popular media
37 Literacy as worldmaking: multimodality, creativity and cosmopolitanism
PART VIII
Co-constructing literacies with communities
38 Literacy studies and situated methods: exploring the social organization of household activity and family media use
39 Oral history as a community literacy project
40 Participatory methodologies and literacy studies
41 The affordances and challenges of visual methodologies in literacy studies
42 Literacy with mobiles in print poor communities
43 Literacies and research as social change
Index