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Re-framing Literacy: Teaching and Learning in English and the Language Arts (Language, Culture, and Teaching Series)

By Richard Andrews

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2010
ISBN
0415995531, 9780415995535, 0203853121, 0415995523, 9780415995528, 9780203853122
LCC
LC149 .A64 2010
Open Library ID
OL24553221M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3783494 bytes)
Series
Language, Culture, and Teaching
Pages
249\249
Topic
Art
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Imaginative and attractive, cutting edge in its conception, this text explicates a model for the integration of language arts and literacy education based on the notion of framing. The act of framing – not frames in themselves – provides a creative and critical approach to English as a subject. Re-framing Literacy breaks new ground in the language arts/literacy field, integrating arts-based and sociologically based conceptions of the subject. The theory of rhetoric the book describes and which provides its overarching theory is dialogic, political, and liberating. Pedagogically, the text works inductively, from examples up toward theory: starting with visuals and moving back and forth between text and image; exploring multimodality; and engaging in the transformations of text and image that are at the heart of learning in English and the language arts. Structured like a teaching course, it is designed to excite and involve readers and lead them toward high-level and useful theory in the field. Offering an authoritative, clear guide to a complex field, it is widely appropriate for pre-service and in-service courses globally in English and language arts education.

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