Literacy and education

Literacy and education

by Gee, James Paul

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Literacy and Education tells the story of how literacy--starting in the early 1980s--came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one. In this accessible introductory volume, acclaimed scholar James Paul Gee shows readers how literacy "left the mind and wandered out into the world." He traces the ways a sociocultural view of literacy melded with a social view of the mind and speaks to learning in and out of school in new and powerful ways. Gee concludes by showing ho…

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  • Full title :Literacy and education / James Paul Gee.

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Literacy and Education tells the story of how literacy--starting in the early 1980s--came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one. In this accessible introductory volume, acclaimed scholar James Paul Gee shows readers how literacy "left the mind and wandered out into the world." He traces the ways a sociocultural view of literacy melded with a social view of the mind and speaks to learning in and out of school in new and powerful ways. Gee concludes by showing how the very idea of "literacy" has broadened into new literacies with words, signs, and deeds in contexts enhanced, augmented, and transformed by new technologies.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 148 pages ; : 20 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781138826021, 1138826022, 9781138826045, 1138826049
  • oclc:ocn894149397
  • LC Classification:LC149
  • Dewey Decimal:302.2/244

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Literacy -- The social mind -- Digital media.

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Subjects

05.12 communication processes Digital media -- Social aspects Education Literacy Literacy -- Social aspects Médias numériques -- Aspect social

Writers

Gee, James Paul

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