{"product_id":"9781472587459","title":"Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning : Multimodality and Governmentality","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNegotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNegotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning \u003c\/i\u003eaddresses two paradoxical currents that are sweeping through the contemporary educational field. The first is the opening up of possibilities for multimodal communication as a result of developments in digital technologies and the sensitivity to multiliteracies. The second is the increasing pressure from standardised testing, accountability and performance measurement which pull curricular and pedagogical practices out of alignment with the everyday informal practices and interests of teachers and learners and narrow opportunities for diverse expressions of literacy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together an international team of scholars to examine the tensions and struggles that result from the current educational climate, the book provides a much-needed discussion of the intersection of technologies of literacies, education and self. It does so through diverse approaches, including philosophical, theoretical and methodological treatments of multimodality and governmentality, and a range of literacies - early years, primary school, workplace, digital, middle school, secondary school, indigenous, adult and place. With examples taken from all stages of education and in several countries, the book allows readers to explore a range of multimodal practices and the ways in which governmentality plays out across them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deeply political and richly illustrated across different populations and varied settings,\u003ci\u003e Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging collection that features cutting-edge research by international scholars. By pushing and expanding fields in literacy studies like multimodality, the editors and chapter authors couple multimodal theory with theoretical frameworks like actor network theory to complicate the contemporary field of literacy education. Read this edited book and you will appreciate how much the field of multimodality and multiliteracies has moved on.” —\u003ci\u003eJennifer Rowsell, Canada Research Chair, Brock University, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eNegotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning\u003c\/i\u003e an all-star cast discusses the tensions between liberation and control in the digital age. This is the deepest discussion of multimodality and multiliteracies to date.” —\u003ci\u003eJames Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents' Professor, Arizona State University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This thought-provoking book draws together a diverse group of international scholars who explore, question, critique and challenge thinking and practices relating to multimodality and governmentality. In foregrounding contradictory discourses, \u003ci\u003eNegotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning\u003c\/i\u003e encourages readers to move beyond accepting the taken-for-granted, and offers multiple ways of \"thinking otherwise\" about literacy education. It prompts deep thinking and challenges readers to think about literacy futures.” —\u003ci\u003eRobyn Henderson, Associate Professor of Literacies Education, University of Southern Queensland, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNegotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning\u003c\/i\u003e is an original book that investigates the intersection of technologies of literacies, education, and the self. Fully engaged with the pressures and struggles of education, and the ways in which its regulatory gaze is unfolding across an international landscape of education, the authors combine governmentality and multimodal theories in exciting ways to point to the potentials of expanding communicational repertoires, identity options and literacy for action in an increasingly constrained environment.” —\u003ci\u003eCarey Jewitt, Professor of Technology and Learning, Institute of Education, University College London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNegotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning\u003c\/i\u003e is a refreshing analysis of an 'unholy alliance':  the learning potential of digital communication and the restrictive nature of educational institutions. The chapters in this edited book explore the tension between multimodality and governance.  Contradictions between everyday communication practices and educational standards have been obvious for some time. This book demonstrates the reality of that contradiction but rather than maintain polarisation it offers new effective spaces and agency for literacy learning in the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chapters provide insights from international researchers across all spheres of education (pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, and adult and community education) as the authors document examples of learning within multimodal frameworks in their specific domain. Their insights demonstrate that a 'regime change' has already occurred in the theory and practice of literacy education. Within acknowledged complexities of assessment, accountability and governance there is the constant theme that a more creative and diverse curriculum is attainable and necessary for authentic learning.” —\u003ci\u003eMaureen Walsh, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University and Honorary Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This thought-provoking book draws together a diverse group of  international scholars who explore, question, critique and challenge  thinking and practices relating to multimodality and governmentality. In  foregrounding contradictory discourses, \u003ci\u003eNegotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning\u003c\/i\u003e  encourages readers to move beyond accepting the taken-for-granted, and  offers multiple ways of \"thinking otherwise\" about literacy education.  It prompts deep thinking and challenges readers to think about literacy  futures.” —\u003ci\u003eRobyn Henderson, Associate Professor of Literacies Education, University of Southern Queensland, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNegotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning\u003c\/i\u003e is a refreshing analysis of an 'unholy alliance':  the learning potential of digital communication and the restrictive nature of educational institutions. The chapters in this edited book explore the tension between multimodality and governance.  Contradictions between everyday communication practices and educational standards have been obvious for some time. This book demonstrates the reality of that contradiction but rather than maintain polarization it offers new effective spaces and agency for literacy learning in the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chapters provide insights from international researchers across all spheres of education (pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary, and adult and community education) as the authors document examples of learning within multimodal frameworks in their specific domain. Their insights demonstrate that a 'regime change' has already occurred in the theory and practice of literacy education. Within acknowledged complexities of assessment, accountability and governance there is the constant theme that a more creative and diverse curriculum is attainable and necessary for authentic learning.” —\u003ci\u003eMaureen Walsh, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University and Honorary Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781472587459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40596097630414,"sku":"9781472587459","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_1aea6761-06f7-4efa-bf35-1437b564c20d.jpg?v=1637849189","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781472587459","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}