Some of our books

 

A New Literacies Sampler

Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear (Eds.)(2007)

"New literacies and A new literacies sampler together raise and explore many issues that affect the very nexs of what it means to do research, to teach and learn (and live!) in the 21st century”British Journal of Educational Technology

New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning

Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel (2006)

"Both editions of this book are profound and stimulating and each complements the other”British Journal of Educational Technology

A Handbook for Teacher Research

Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel (2004)

" Lankshear and Knobel’s A Handbook for Teacher Research [provides] a comprehensive‘how to’ manual for those interested in conducting teacher research [and … a convincing argument for the reconceptualisation of teacher research not only through the lens of academic rigour but also through the lens of ‘professional enhancement’ " Australian Educational Researcher

New Literacies: Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning

Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel (2003)

"This superb book ... banishes any lurking notion that the world now is much as it was in the past only much more technologised ... [A] timely and challenging book with enormous implications for policy, practice and research" British Journal of Educational Studies

"Brings to the fore the increasing gap between the literacy practices embraced by schools and policymakers and new literacy practices ... increasingly engaged in by children and youth ... The best explanation to date of just what 'new' means in new literacies ... and it offers the most thoughtful look at how these literacies could change practices in schools" Reading Research Quarterly

"Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel examine how the digital revolution has fundamentally transformed the nature of literacy practices in education and society ... [They] present a new paradigm for literacy learning, reflecting the new ways that individuals communicate and interact with others in and outside the classroom" Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Changing Literacies

Colin Lankshear (1997

" 'superb'...quite the most stimulating text I have read for a very long time... If you teach, this is a book to buy, to read, to be troubled by, to learn from and with, and to change your way of thinking about literacy and discourse, however well embedded and developed that may be." British Journal of Educational Technology

"This book makes a major contribution to the field of literacy studies. Changing Literacies offers an insightful and original philosophical analysis of the relationship between literacy, language, culture and experience. Lankshear's style of writing is, as always, a model of clarity and precision." Discourse: The Cultural Politics of Education

Everyday Literacies

Michele Knobel (1999)

"An articulate and lucid interpreter of theory, Knobel is also a keen observer of the students' everyday lives ... Knobel presents the four adolescents in fluent, descriptive language, into which she subtly interjects analytical commentary. Her willingness to share her own life experiences with certain Discourses and to reflect on how this experience may have affected her interpretations makes this work especially appealing as a qualitative study... Everyday Literacies will be of special value to language and literacy researchers, particularly those who are interested in qualitative research methods. It may also be interesting to general readers in the field of education who appreciate a theoretically oriented glimpse into the language practices of adolescents." Sarah Beck, Havard Educational Review.

"The book makes two compelling points. First, Knobel follows Colin Lankshear .. Allan Luke ... Brain Street, and others in criticizing the popular view of literacy as a set of decontextualised skills... Knobel illustrates this first point by describing the socioculturally embedded literate activities that each of her four case study subjects participate in. Second, Knobel goes beyond "difference" or "mismatch" theories of school failure and offers a "hybrid" account of cultural and individual differences. She gives detailed descriptions of the multiple literate identities that the four subjects enact." Stanley Wortham, Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

 

Ways of Knowing: Researching Literacy

Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear (1999)

"A ... compact and accessible reference ... to be unpacked at leisure or as the need arises.... Everything is clearly explained, with ... analogy, point summarised information, case study examples, discussion of potential pitfalls, evaluation criteria lists, activity questions, and sources for further reading and information. In many ways an exemplary teaching text." Diane Carlyle and Nick Walker in The Australian Higher Education Supplement. Wednesday, 7 June 2000.

 

 

Curriculum in the Postmodern Condition

Alicia de Alba, Edgar González-Gaudiano, Colin Lankshear and Michael Peters (2000)

 

Teachers and Technoliteracy: Managing Literacy, Technology and Learning in Schools

Colin Lankshear and Ilana Snyder, with Bill Green (2000)

Training for a Smart Workforce

Rod Gerber and Colin Lankshear (Eds.) (2000)

The New Work Order: Behind the Language of the New Capitalism

James Paul Gee, Glynda Hull and Colin Lankshear (1996)

Counternarratives: Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces

Henry Giroux, Colin Lankshear, Peter McLaren and Michael Peters (1996)

 

Politics of Liberation

Peter McLaren and Colin Lankshear (Eds.) (1994)

 

Critical Literacy: Politics, Praxis & the Postmodern

Colin Lankshear and Peter McLaren (Eds.) (1993)

 

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