Winner of the 2017 Edward Fry Book Award from the Literacy Research
Association.
Literacy Theories for the Digital Age insightfully brings together six
essential approaches to literacy research and educational practice. The
book provides powerful and accessible theories for readers, including
Socio-cultural, Critical, Multimodal, Socio-spatial, Socio-material and
Sensory Literacies. The brand new Sensory Literacies approach is an
original and visionary contribution to the field, coupled with a
provocative foreword from leading sensory anthropologist David Howes.
This dynamic collection explores a legacy of literacy research while
showing the relationships between each paradigm, highlighting their
complementarity and distinctions. This highly relevant compendium will
inspire researchers and teachers to explore new frontiers of thought and
practice in times of diversity and technological change.