Ebook: Multiliteracies : literacy learning and the design of social futures

This book considers the future of literacy teaching in the context of the rapidly changing English language. It is a coherent, accessible overview with well-known international contributors bringing together their experiences. Multiliteracies : the beginnings of an idea / Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis -- Pedagogy of Multiliteracies designing social futures / New London Group -- New people in new worlds : networks, the new capitalism and schools / James Paul Gee -- Cyber-schooling and technological change : Multiliteracies for new times / Carmen Luke -- Multiliteracies and multilingualism / Joseph Lo Bianco -- History, cultural diversity and English language teaching / Martin Nakata -- Changing the role of schools / Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope -- Design and transformation : new theories of meaning / Gunther Kress -- Multiliteracies and language : orders of discourse and intertextuality / Norman Fairclough -- Multimodality / Gunther Kress -- Designs for social futures / Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis -- Multiliteracies pedagogy : a pedagogical supplement / Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope -- Taking cultural differences into account / Courtney B. Cazden -- Narratives and inscriptions : cultural tools, power and powerful sense-making / Sarah Michaels and Richard Sohmer -- Multiliteracies Project : South African teachers respond / Denise Newfield and Pippa Stein -- Negotiating a pedagogy of Multiliteracies : the communication curriculum in a South African management development programme / David Bond -- Four innovative programmes : a postscript from Alice Springs / Courtney B. Cazden