Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

The rise of New Literacy Studies and the shift from studying reading and writing as a technical process to examining situated literacies—what people do with l

Compiled for use in the Open University MA course E825. The 15 articles sample the ideas over the past decade on the importance of social factors in language an

Offers a detailed examination of theories about literacy developed by different academic disciplines and proposes an "ideological" model of literacy. Looks at c

This is a varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. It makes a timely and important contribution to litera

Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates