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Chapter 2: Literacies’ Purposes

Supporting Material

Communicative Purposes

Literacies for Work

Wagner on New Workplace Capacities

Barton on Literacy and Economic Development

Ford on his Car Factory

Taylor on Scientific Management

Heath on Work and Community Literacies

Peters and Waterman on Business Excellence

Sennett on the New Flexibility at Work

Gowen on Workers’ Literacies

Literacies for Citizenship

Anderson on the Nation as Imagined Community

Cope and Kalantzis on the Assimilationist Culture of the Modern Nation

Harvey on Neoliberalism

Street on Literacy and Nationalism

Literacies for Contemporary Community Life

Kalantzis and Cope on New Media Literacies

Wark on Gamer Theory

Knobel and Lankshear on the New Literacies

Gee on What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Shirky on Creativity in the New Media

Jenkins on Participatory Media Culture and Youth

Haythornthwaite on Participatory Transformations

Galloway on Protocol

Further Reading


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  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Literacies on a Human Scale
  • Chapter 2: Literacies’ Purposes
  • Chapter 3: Didactic Literacy Pedagogy
  • Chapter 4: Authentic Literacy Pedagogy
  • Chapter 5: Functional Literacy Pedagogy
  • Chapter 6: Critical Literacy Pedagogy
  • Chapter 7: Literacies as Multimodal Designs for Meaning
  • Chapter 8: Making Written Meanings
  • Chapter 9: Making Visual Meanings
  • Chapter 10: Making Spatial, Tactile and Gestural Meanings
  • Chapter 11: Making Audio and Oral Meanings
  • Chapter 12: Literacies to Think and To Learn
  • Chapter 13: Literacies Pedagogy
  • Chapter 14: Literacies and Learner Differences
  • Chapter 15: Literacies Standards and Assessment
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