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Recent years have seen enormous interest in the§nature of literacy within modern societies. Several§studies have focused on the literacy practices of§young children, but detailed longitudinal work with§adolescents is relatively rare. This book attempts§to understand the nature of young people s literacy§through a cultural study of the media practices of a§group of young people living in an English coastal§town. The author was the students teacher for two§years preceding the project and visited them§periodically over more than three years to conduct§small-group interviews. Previous studies of young§people s cultural practices have frequently focused§on the use of specific media forms, such as§television or information technology, at a specific§point in time. This work focuses on the students §use over time of a range of media, including moving§image, sound, print and ICT, arguing that the§youngsters practices should be viewed less as§discrete competencies than as processes of§multi-modal literacy. It will be of interest to§educators, parents and everyone who wishes to grasp§the nature of contemporary literacy.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Schools

• Full title: Grounded Literacy
• Subtitle: A longitudinal study of young people s everyday media practices
• Author: John Hodgson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9783639168976
• ISBN: 3639168976
• ID: 06825248
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. July 2009

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