Re-framing Literacy

<p>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. <em>Re-framing Literacy</em> 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. </p><p>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.</p> <p><strong>Frame I: The big picture</strong></p><p>1. What’s in a frame?</p><p>2. Framing in the visual arts</p><p>3. Framing in the performance arts</p><p>4. Visual and verbal frames</p><p>5. Frames of reference: framing within a theory of multimodality</p><p><strong>Frame II: The case of language</strong></p><p>6. Pre-school writing and drawing: before framing</p><p>7. Re-framing language arts/English as a school subject8. Zooming in: framing in practice</p><p><strong>Frame III: Re-framing the picture</strong></p><p>9. Breaking the frame: new horizons for English</p><p>10. Panning out: beyond rhetoric and framing</p>