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Multiliteracy (plural: multiliteracies) is an approach to literacy theory and pedagogy coined in the mid-1990s by the New London Group. [1] The approach is characterized by two key aspects of literacy – linguistic diversity and multimodal forms of linguistic expressions and representation.
Allan Luke AO (born 1950) is an educator, researcher, and theorist studying literacy, multiliteracies, applied linguistics, and educational sociology and policy. Luke has written or edited 17 books and more than 250 articles and book chapters. [1]
Colin Lankshear is adjunct professor at James Cook University, Mount St Vincent University and McGill University.He is an internationally acclaimed scholar in the study of new literacies and digital technologies (cf., Lankshear 1987; Lankshear 1997; Lankshear & Snyder, 2000; Lankshear & Knobel, 2003; Lankshear & Knobel 2006; Knobel & Lankshear, 2007; Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear & Leu, 2008 ...
Brian Vincent Street (24 October 1943 – 21 June 2017) was a British academic and anthropologist, who was professor of language education at King's College London and visiting professor at the Graduate School of Education in University of Pennsylvania.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... He is best known for developing the theory underlying the literacy philosophy of ... Theory and Reality in Reading", New ...
David R. Cole is a philosopher of education, academic and author. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Education, English, Literacies and ESL and has held positions as Globalisation Theme Leader in the Centre for Educational Research, Senior Researcher in the Institute for Culture and Society [1] and Associate Dean, HDR at Western Sydney University.
Literacy with an Attitude, written by Patrick J. Finn, attempts to redefine literacy as the term exists within the education field. [1] In his professional life, Finn served as an Associate Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School of Education from the University of Buffalo . [ 2 ]
With a rise in digital and Internet literacy, new modes of communication are needed in the classroom in addition to print, from visual texts to digital e-books. Rather than replacing traditional literacy values, multimodality augments and increases literacy for educational communities by introducing new forms.