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By emphasising the study of literacy in a multilingual and multimodal world, the module (LCW) will provide students with an opportunity to study literacy as a broad and diverse social phenomenon, defined, understood and researched in multiple and shifting ways.听 Using a primarily socio-cultural perspective, and located very much within Literacy Studies and approaches based on Literacy as Social Practice (LSP), this module will explore literacy use and learning, life-long (that is, of adults of all ages as well as children) and life-wide (across a range of life domains and cultural contexts). The module will enable students to critically engage with key concepts in the study of literacy in a changing world, including multimodality, multiliteracies and the diversity of literacy practices, as well as to explore a range of different theoretical approaches to understanding literacy.听 Students will have opportunities to research and reflect on constructions of power and value in literacy practices, and factors such as gender, home-school discourses and literacy policy that shape literacy lives in different domains.听
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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