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Literacy Practices in Transition: Perspectives from the Nordic Countries (New Perspectives on Language and Education)
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Anne Pitkaenen-Huhta (Contributor) Lars Holm (Contributor)
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Literacy Practices in Transition explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals, practices and policies; how the global and local meet in discourses and practices and how people need to (re)negotiate their way in the complex and messy spaces in which they move. The volume challenges current trends in the global standardization of language and literacy education. Instead, it promotes the idea of literacy as a multiple, multilingual, multimodal and constantly contestable and negotiable phenomenon, which calls for the development of language and literacy education that is sensitive to the needs and experiences of the individual actors.
About the Author
Anne Pitkaenen-Huhta received her academic training at the universities of Jyvaeskylae and Lancaster. She is currently a professor of English, language learning and teaching at the Department of Languages, University of Jyvaeskylae. Her research focuses on multilingual literacy and discourse practices, especially of young people, and foreign language learning in formal and informal contexts. Her research employs ethnographic and discourse analytic methods.Lars Holm holds a PhD in literacy and globalization and is currently associate professor at the Department of Education, Aarhus University. His research focuses on literacy and language practices in complex multilingual and postcolonial settings and on concepts and practices in literacy and language testing in education.
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- Contributor: Anne Pitkaenen-Huhta
- Imprint: Multilingual Matters
- ISBN13: 9781847698407
- Number of Pages: 264
- Packaged Dimensions: 148x210x20mm
- Packaged Weight: 462
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
- Release Date: 2012-11-14
- Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Anne Pitkaenen-Huhta received her academic training at the universities of Jyvaeskylae and Lancaster. She is currently a professor of English, language learning and teaching at the Department of Languages, University of Jyvaeskylae. Her research focuses on multilingual literacy and discourse practices, especially of young people, and foreign language learning in formal and informal contexts. Her research employs ethnographic and discourse analytic methods.Lars Holm holds a PhD in literacy and globalization and is currently associate professor at the Department of Education, Aarhus University. His research focuses on literacy and language practices in complex multilingual and postcolonial settings and on concepts and practices in literacy and language testing in education.
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