Pedagogy of Multiliteracies

Based on case studies from public schools in Toronto, Canada, this book aims to develop a theory and practice of teaching multiliteracies in culturally diverse, linguistically heterogeneous urban classrooms. Lotherington argues that in a globalized world literacy must be reassessed on an international scale and multilingualism must be theorized - and practiced - as a component of multimodal literacy.

Heather Lotherington is Professor of Multilingual Education at York University.

1. In Pursuit of a Pedagogy of Multiliteracies 2. Competing Visions of Language and Literacy Education: Theory, Policy and New Directions for Practice 3. Rewriting Goldilocks and the Three Bears 4. Goldilocks Revisited: Telling Old Stories in New Ways 5. Genre-Bending: Transcoding Narratives 6. Creating Dialogic Spaces for Learning 7. Multimodality, Language Inclusion, and Third Space 8. Towards an Emergent Pedagogy of Multiliteracies