Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet

What should the "online classroom" mean to teachers? In this collection of essays, some of the most progressive voices in literacy studies reconsider what it means to be literate in the information age, and offer practical advice not only for getting networked computers into the classroom but also for instructing students and other teachers how to tap into their boundless potential.

About the author

Todd Taylor is assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the coauthor of The Columbia Guide to Online Style, editor of Dialogic Space: Electronic Frontiers and Critical Literacy, and serves as senior editor of JAC: A Journal of Composition.Irene Ward is assistant professor of English and director of expository writing at Kansas State University. She is the author of Literacy, Ideology, and Dialogue: Toward a Dialogic Pedagogy, coauthor of The Critical Reader, and coeditor of (Inter)views: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Rhetoric and Literacy.

Product details

• Authors: Todd (University of North Carolina) Ward Taylor, Todd Ward Taylor
• Assisted by: Todd Taylor (Editor), Todd (University of North Carolina) Taylor (Editor), Todd W. Taylor (Editor), Irene Ward (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.1998
• EAN: 9780231113304
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11330-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: New Directions in World Politi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics