Thinking Through New Literacies for Primary and Early Years is an accessible text that encourages readers to consider deeply what is meant by \'literacy\' today.
Ian Todd is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cumbria, with a specialism in English and an interest in the teaching of ICT.
She is currently the acting Programme Leader for the Primary PGCE course.
Debbie Simpson is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cumbria.
Jayne is involved in e-safety training of student teachers.
Jayne Metcalfe is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cumbria.
Each book contains links to the Teachers\' Standards providing students with a clear transition from study to practice.
Structured around sets of specific \'skills\', each chapter uses critical Thinking and reflective exercises to develop greater subject knowledge and critical awareness.
About the Thinking Through Education Series Thinking Through Education is a series of texts designed and written specifically for those education students entering the second or final phase of their degree course.
Throughout, practical guidance runs alongside structured critical Thinking exercises to help the reader reflect on both theory and practice.
Readers are encourages to think Through the issues surrounding inclusion and the legal and ethical issues raised by this post-typographic age.
It considers verbal literacy, speaking and listening, and visual literacy.
The book begins by asking \'what\'s new about new literacies?\' and goes on to explore some technological innovations designed to support the emergent reader and writer.
Specifically written for education students in the later Years of their course, the text draws on research and practice to explore the challenges and opportunities involved, while helping to develop the reader\'s own critical Thinking skills.
It explores the many different ways in which teachers and children develop their own literacy.
Thinking Through New Literacies for Primary and Early Years is an accessible text that encourages readers to consider deeply what is meant by \'literacy\' today
