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In contrast, the authors foreground four current theoretical frameworks: New Literacy Studies (literacy as social practice), Critical Literacy (literacy as political practice), New Technologies and Literacy (literacy as technology-mediated practice) and Sociocultural-Historical theory (literacy as changing cultural/historical participation), that underpin the subsequent chapters of this book.
This is the territory and more generally the claim that is now customarily associated with the New Literacy Studies, and within this, with notions such as 'critical literacy', 'multiliteracies' and 'situated literacies'--fields typically associated with broad social justice agendas and socially critical curricula, but not necessarily connected to place or the environment.
Cope & Kalantzis, 2000; Kress, 2003; New London Group, 1996), and proponents of the New Literacy Studies (e.
 
 
 
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