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>