Literacy and Education

Literacy and Education tells the story of how literacy-starting in the early 1980s-came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one. In this accessible introductory volume, acclaimed scholar James Paul Gee shows readers how literacy "left the mind and wandered out into the world." He traces the ways a sociocultural view of literacy melded with a social view of the mind and speaks to learning in and out of school in new and powerful ways. Gee concludes by showing how the very idea of "literacy" has broadened into new literacies with words, signs, and deeds in contexts enhanced, augmented, and transformed by new technologies.

List of contents

Series Editor Introduction
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Literacy
Chapter 3: The Social Mind
Chapter 4: Digital Media
References
Index

About the author

James Paul Gee is Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, USA. He is author of a number of books, including An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, fourth edition, Language and Learning in the Digital Age and is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis.

Summary

In this accessible introductory volume, acclaimed scholar James Paul Gee tells the story of how literacy—starting in the early 1980s—came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one.

Product details

• Authors: James Paul Gee, James Paul (Arizona State University Gee, Gee James Paul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2014
• EAN: 9781138826045
• ISBN: 978-1-138-82604-5
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Routledge Key Ideas in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Literature: history & criticism, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Language teaching theory and methods, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism, Applied linguistics for ELT