Re-framing Literacy - 9780415995535

Imaginative and attractive, cutting edge in its conception, this text explicates a model for the integration of language arts and literacy education based on the notion of framing. Framing as a unifying principle derives from the frames used in the visual and performing arts, and is also a concept that has been used in sociology. The act of framing - not frames in themselves - provides a creative and critical approach to English as a subject.

The theory of rhetoric described in this book and which provides its overarching theory is dialogic, political, and liberating. Pedagogically, the text works inductively, from examples up toward theory: starting with visuals and moving back and forth between text and image; exploring multimodality; and engaging in the transformations of text and image that are at the heart of learning in English and the language arts.

Structured like a teaching course, designed to excite and involve readers and lead them toward high-level and useful theory in the field, Re-framing Literacy is widely appropriate for pre-service and in-service courses globally in English and language arts education.