Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

What has come to be termed the "New Literacy Studies" (NLS) (Gee, 1991; Street, 1996) represents a new tradition in considering the nature of literacy, focusing not so much on acquisition of skills, as in dominant approaches, but rather on what it means to think of literacy as a social practice (Street, 1985). This entails the recognition of multiple literacies, varying according to time and space, but also contested in relations of power. NLS, then, takes nothing for granted with respect to literacy and the social practices with which it becomes associated, problematizing what counts as literacy at any time and place and asking "whose literacies" are dominant and whose are marginalized or resistant.

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What's 'new' in New Literacy Studies? Critical approaches to literacy in theory and practice

but the threat they bring to artistic culture. From his opening mockery of the literary establishment’s tendency to theorize the world in terms of desire or gender to his disapproval of those who venerate art while denying its validity in the same breath, Jonathan Dollimore has created an easily understood, albeit at times too theoretical, synthesis of the literary and the experiential in Sex, Literature and Censorship. His arguments on critical theory do not necessarily reject the concept of theory; rather, he argues that critical theorists should strive to understand the contradictions within our lives and our literature and explore the daemonic power of the subjects that offend our sense of tradition.

Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication:

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Modern Social Imaginaries

Literacy in the New Media Age

The report was commissioned by the Department of Education, Science and Training to investigate the perceived efficacy of middle years programmes in all States and Territories in improving the quality of teaching, learning and student outcomes, especially in literacy and numeracy and for student members of particular target groups. These target groups included students from lower socio-economic communities, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, students with a language background other than English, rural and remote students, and students struggling with the transition from middle/upper primary to the junior secondary years. The project involved large scale national and international literature reviews on Australian and international middle years approaches as well as an analysis of key literacy and numeracy teaching and learning strategies being used. In the report, there is emergent evidence of the relative efficacy of a combination of explicit state policy, dedicated funding and curriculum and professional development frameworks that are focused on the improvement of classroom pedagogy in the middle years. The programs that evidenced the greatest current and potential value for target group students tended to have developed in state policy environments that encouraged a structural rather than adjunct approach to middle years innovations. The authors conclude that in order to translate the gains made into sustainable improvement of educational results in literacy and numeracy for target groups, there is a need for a second generation of middle years theorising, research, development and practice.

Beyond the middle: A report about Literacy and Numeracy Development of Target Group STudents in the Middle Years of Schooling.

Introduction: Contentious Technologies - Victoria Carrington and Muriel Robinson PART A - DIGITAL TEXTS IN AND OUT OF SCHOOL Young people's video productions as new sites of learning - Rebekah Willet A space for play: crossing boundaries and learning online - Julia Davies Masters and critics: children as producers of online digital texts - Clare Dowdall PART B - CHANGING LITERACIES From Wikipedia to the humble classroom Wiki: why we should pay attention to Wikis - Victoria Carrington Negotiating the blogosphere: educational possibilities - Julia Davies and Guy Merchant Virtual worlds in real life classrooms - Guy Merchant PART C - CHANGING LITERACIES, CHANGING PEDAGOGIES Personal digital literacies versus classroom literacies: investigating pre-service teachers' digital lives in and beyond the classroom - Cathy Burnett Digital portraits: teacher education and multiliteracies pedagogy - Rosie Kerin Composing with Old and New Media: Toward a Parallel Pedagogy - Kevin Leander PART D - INTERCONNECTIVITY Conclusion: leaving Hong Kong - Muriel Robinson and Victoria Carrington

Digital literacies : social learning and classroom practices

What is the relationship between economic and cultural globalisation and everyday literacy practices for teachers and students in that most stolid of twentieth-century institutions, the state primary school? What happens when the very institution that was designed for the propagation of print literacy, for the transmission of encyclopedic knowledge, for the inculcation of industrial behaviours, for the development of the post-war citizen, for the domestication of diversity into monocultural identity – the technology of the modern state par excellence – faces the borderless flows and ‘scapes’ of information and image, bodies and capital? And, no less important, what might happen if we engage in a momentary suspension of belief in current policy-driven preoccupations with pedagogical method, with decoding and basic skills – and ask a larger curriculum question: within the existing walls and wires, capillaries and conventions of the school, how might we construct a literacy education that addresses new economic and cultural formations?

Globalisation, Literacy, Curriculum Practice

This paper begins with the author's recent participation in an Australian radio interview on the topic of SMS txting. It takes this as an entry point for an analysis and discussion of the discourses around txting to be found in a series of newspaper articles and taken up in the radio interview. Moving on from the initial analysis, the paper addresses some of the underlying tensions that come into play as new technologies and new literacies are taken up by young people and move with them into classrooms with existing institutional traditions around text and literacy.

Victoria Carrington

Papers

Literacy in the New Media Age

Beyond the middle: A report about Literacy and Numeracy Development of Target Group STudents in the Middle Years of Schooling.

Digital literacies : social learning and classroom practices

Globalisation, Literacy, Curriculum Practice

Txting: The End of Civilization (Again)?