English & Literacy/Language Arts

This collection brings together situated research studies of literacy across a range of specific contexts, covering everyday, educational, and workplace domains...

This collection brings together situated research studies of literacy across a range of specific contexts, covering everyday, educational, and workplace domains...

On the frontline of critical issues in education today, this volume covers new ground for teachers and teacher educators for whom crisis is a daily part of their work. Exploring the relationship between crisis and literacy, its aims are to improve educators’ ability to recognize, cope with, and avoi..

Combining language research with digital, multimodal and critical literacy, this book uniquely positions issues of transcultural spaces and cosmopolitan identities across a range of contexts. Its distinctive contribution is a framework to relate observation and analysis of these flows to language de..

Combining language research with digital, multimodal and critical literacy, this book uniquely positions issues of transcultural spaces and cosmopolitan identities across a range of contexts. Its distinctive contribution is a framework to relate observation and analysis of these flows to language de..

Exploring ways in which how a person perceives and feels their abilities to read and write successfully in a given context shape how he or she performs their literate identities, Bronwyn Williams draws on interviews and observations with students in several countries to examine the intersections of ..

This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective...

Exploring the positive synergies between critical literacy and place-conscious pedagogy, this book shows how systematic study of and engagement with specific elements of place can enable students’ academic learning and literacy and ensure a pedagogy of possibility underpinned by social justice...

This book examines how children’s bodies are trained in time and space to produce schooled, literate individuals. Moving from theory to practice, examples of real classroom events show how teachers’ practices direct discipline onto children’s bodies...

This book examines how children’s bodies are trained in time and space to produce schooled, literate individuals. Moving from theory to practice, examples of real classroom events show how teachers’ practices direct discipline onto children’s bodies...

This edited collection provides an overview of English literature education in the Asia-Pacific in global times, bringing to international attention a rich understanding of the trends, issues and challenges specific to nations within the Asia-Pacific region...

Young adults are actively looking for anything that connects them with the changes happening in their lives, and the books discussed throughout Literature for Young Adults have the potential to make that connection and motivate them to read. It explores a great variety of works, genres, and formats,..