Situated Literacies

<p><em>Situated Literacies</em> is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices.<br>Detailed ethnographic studies of a wide variety of specific situations, all involving real texts and lived practices, are balanced with general claims about the nature of literacy. Contributors address a coherent set of issues:<br>* the visual and material aspects of literacy<br>* concepts of time and space in relation to literacy<br>* the functions of literacies in shaping and sustaining identities in communities of practice<br>* the relationship between texts and the practices associated with their use<br>the role of discourse analysis on literacy studies<br>These studies, along with a foreword by Denny Taylor, make a timely and important contribution to literacy theory and suggest directions for the further development of the field. <em>Situated Literacies</em> is essential reading for anyone involved in literary education.</p> List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Foreword by Denny Taylor, Introduction: exploring situated literacies, 1 Literacy practices, 2 Expanding the new literacy studies: using photographs to explore literacy as social practice, 3 The new literacy studies and time: an exploration, 4 There is no escape from third-space theory: borderland discourse and the ‘in-between’ literacies of prisons, 5 Becoming just another alphanumeric code: farmers’ encounters with the literacy and discourse practices of agricultural bureaucracy at the livestock auction, 6 Texts in practices: interpreting the physical characteristics of children’s project work, 7 Family literacy: a pedagogy for the future?, 8 Emergent literacy practices in an electronic community, 9 Respect and the pursuit of ‘symmetry’ in researching literacy and student writing, 10 Researching literacy practices: learning from activities with teachers and students, 11 The New Literacy Studies: from ‘socially situated’ to the work of the social, 12 The New Literacy Studies: context, intertextuality and discourse, 13 New Literacy Studies at the Interchange, Index