Books in the Literacies series

The ease with which people and messages flow around world poses significant questions with regards to literacy and its mobility and inequality in the age of globalization. This book considers how 'grassroots' literacy in the Third World develops outside the literacy-saturated environments of the developed world.

City Literacies explores the lives and literacies of different generations of people living in Spitalfields and The City at the end of the twentieth century.

This book considers the future of literacy teaching in the context of the rapidly changing English language. It is a coherent, accessible overview with well-known international contributors bringing together their experiences.

This book addresses the literacy problems of African American students providing educators with an African American centred theory of rhetoric and composition.

This book provides a critical examination of the new on-line literacy practices and values, and how these are determined by national, cultural and educational contexts. A lively, original challenge to conventional notions of literacy and technology

Written by international scholars from a range of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine the implications of text produced on a keyboard, visible on a screen and transmitted through a global network of computers.

This is a varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. It makes a timely and important contribution to literary practices - essential reading for anyone involved in literary education.

This work presents a study of academic writing practices. Informed by composition research from the USA and academic literacies studies from the UK, this work challenges official discourse on writing as a skill.

Explores ways of meaning making by examining the practices, stories, and products of digital media producers with the goal of understanding the logic of marketplace production. This book looks at the shared patterns and common themes. It is of interest to post graduate students of applied linguistics and education.

Demonstrates what it is like to be an adult learner. This book focuses on language, literacy and numeracy learning, and explores the relationship between learning and adults' lives, following individual students in various formal learning situations, from college environments to a young homeless project, and a drug support and aftercare centre.

Tackles the big ideas about language, literacy and learning. Why do poor and minority students under-perform in school? Do computer games help or hinder learning? What can new research in psychology teach our educational policy makers?

Explores rap and hiphop discourse within the trajectory of Black discourses. Looking at music videos, websites and billboards, this book highlights how black youth read the world they inhabit.

Provides a contribution to general debates about literacy and gender in schools. This title advances the theory in literacy as a social practice as well as providing practical support to those researching literacy. It is suitable for anyone with an interest in applied linguistics, education or gender studies.

This book considers the future of literacy teaching in the context of the rapidly changing English language. It is a coherent, accessible overview with well-known international contributors bringing together their experiences.

This book explores all aspects of the materiality of writing in an integrated social semiotic and multimodal framework.

This is a varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. It makes a timely and important contribution to literary practices - essential reading for anyone involved in literary education.

The contributors present their in-depth studies of everyday uses and meanings of literacy and of the literacy programmes that have been developed to enhance them.