Literacy for Digital Futures Mind, Body, Text

• Main Author: Mills, Kathy A. (auth)
• Other Authors: Unsworth, Len (auth), Scholes, Laura (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
• Subjects: Literacy; Teaching of students with English as a second language (TESOL); bodies; communication; digital literacy; education; embodied cognition; knowledge; literacy practices; mind; multiliteracies; multimodality; social semiotics; textual design; ways of knowing
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy by addressing knowledge as contextualised, embodied, multimodal, and digitally mediated. In today's world of technological breakthroughs, social shifts, and rapid changes to the educational landscape, literacy can no longer be understood through established curriculum and static text structures. To prepare teachers, scholars, and researchers for the digital future, the book is organised around three themes - Mind and Materiality; Body and Senses; and Texts and Digital Semiotics - to shape readers' understanding of literacy. Opening up new interdisciplinary themes, Mills, Unsworth, and Scholes confront emerging issues for next-generation digital literacy practices. The volume helps new and established researchers rethink dynamic changes in the materiality of texts and their implications for the mind and body, and features recommendations for educational and professional practice.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (274 p.)

ISBN

9781003137368
9781000687040
9780367683177
9780367683948

Access

Open Access