The nature of the literacies used in everyday community life has also changed dramatically since the classical literacy teaching of the nineteeth and twentieth century school. For one thing, whereas we were mostly...More

Critical pedagogies generally acknowledge that literacies are in the plural. They recognise the many voices learners bring to the classroom,...More

Functional approaches to literacy focus on students learning to read and compose the kinds of texts that enable them to succeed at school and...More

Authentic pedagogies were first formulated as a direct counterpoint to didactic pedagogies. They became well known and influential from the b...More

Didactic literacy pedagogy was the founding approach to reading and writing from the introduction of mass, compulsory, institutionalised educ...More

This is the theory of Literacies Pedagogy:

Literacies Pedagogy: The 'Knowledge Processes'

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To see some rich examples of literacies pedagogy, go to the 'Literacies Pedagogy in Practice' sectionof our supporting materials website. While you're looking through these lea...More

In the era of strong nation states and nationalist ideologies, literacy played a role in creating an homogeneous citizenry. When it came to learner differences (culture, language, dialect, and the like), the agend...More

In this section of the Literacies learning module, we are going to examine the purposes of literacies. First: literacies for work. In the industrial economies of the twentieth century, most jobs were low skilled,...More

We live in a time of profound change in the ways in which humans make meaning. Within just a few generations we have seen the rise of new, digital media which are at once deeply multimodal, socially interconnected...More