Product Description: New Literacies and Teacher Learning examines the complexities of teacher professional development today in relation to new literacies and digital technologies, set within the wider context of strong demands for teachers to be innovative and to improve students’ learning outcomes...read more

Product Description: Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and explores the relationship between these studies and international perspectives. Calling upon social practice approaches, New Literacy Studies, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and other paradigms, the contributors identify both convergent and divergent literacy and numeracy issues within the region as well as beyond the Latin American context...read more

Product Description: Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and explores the relationship between these studies and international perspectives. Calling upon social practice approaches, New Literacy Studies, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and other paradigms, the contributors identify both convergent and divergent literacy and numeracy issues within the region as well as beyond the Latin American context...read more

This publication explores the presence of written culture within community life. It spotlights a literacy project set up for a group of Mexican women living in a small town on the edge of Mexico City and examines the impact the project has on their lives. The author draws a number of important conclusions regarding the significance of literacy for adult education in a local context.--Publisher's description.

Approaching writing as a social practice, this text shows how people participate in literacy events with scribes. It argues that literacy is a culturally situated social practice, and looks at the contextual constraints on how language is produced, interpreted and used.