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Book Review: Teaching Multiliteracies across the Curriculum: Changing Contexts Text and Image in Classroom Practice

Book Review: Teaching Multiliteracies across the Curriculum: Changing Contexts Text and Image in... Teaching multiliteracies across the curriculum: Changing contexts text and image in classroom practice Len Unsworth Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001. 306pp. ISBN 0-335-20604-2 Teaching multiliteracies across the curriculum: Changing contexts text and image in classroom practice is written as a textbook for literacy educators. Unsworth takes the notion of ‘multi- literacies’ and applies it to the genres of English, history and science, discussing in some detail how grammatical structures can be used to critically understand print and visual representations of knowledge. A critical grammatical approach is one which has grown from recent shifts in think- ing. Pedagogy, in many ways, is still working to accommodate the major theoretical and technological shifts in the late 20th century. The area of literacy is a telling illustration of some of the struggles which have accompanied changes in ideologies and practice. Critical thinking suggests that everything is a text and that all texts are socially constructed as, in turn, are we through the texts we read and write. ‘Reading’ and ‘writing’ became con- figured as ‘literacy’, or ‘literacies’, to describe the multifaceted and multimodal ways that texts are read and produced. Conceptualisations of English and literacy have undergone their own political variations. In http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Book Review: Teaching Multiliteracies across the Curriculum: Changing Contexts Text and Image in Classroom Practice

Faulkner, Julie
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 47 (3): 2 – Nov 1, 2003
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SAGE
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© 2003 Australian Council for Educational Research
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0004-9441
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2050-5884
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10.1177/000494410304700308
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Teaching multiliteracies across the curriculum: Changing contexts text and image in classroom practice Len Unsworth Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001. 306pp. ISBN 0-335-20604-2 Teaching multiliteracies across the curriculum: Changing contexts text and image in classroom practice is written as a textbook for literacy educators. Unsworth takes the notion of ‘multi- literacies’ and applies it to the genres of English, history and science, discussing in some detail how grammatical structures can be used to critically understand print and visual representations of knowledge. A critical grammatical approach is one which has grown from recent shifts in think- ing. Pedagogy, in many ways, is still working to accommodate the major theoretical and technological shifts in the late 20th century. The area of literacy is a telling illustration of some of the struggles which have accompanied changes in ideologies and practice. Critical thinking suggests that everything is a text and that all texts are socially constructed as, in turn, are we through the texts we read and write. ‘Reading’ and ‘writing’ became con- figured as ‘literacy’, or ‘literacies’, to describe the multifaceted and multimodal ways that texts are read and produced. Conceptualisations of English and literacy have undergone their own political variations. In

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