Literacies

Colin Lankshear received his PhD in philosophy of education from Canterbury University, New Zealand. He is an independent researcher and writer based in Mexico, with adjunct professor affiliations at James Cook, McGill, and Mount St Vincent Universities.
Michele Knobel completed her PhD in language and literacy education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She is currently Professor of Education at Montclair State University and coordinates graduate and undergraduate literacy programs.
Their publications include A Handbook for Teacher Research (2004), New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Knowledge (2006), A New Literacies Sampler (2007), Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices (2008), and DIY Media: Creating. Sharing and Learning with New Technologies (2010).

«A collection of essays that brilliantly traces the thinking and writing of Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel, two scholars known widely for their ability to immerse themselves in the social and cultural literacies that underpin much of what we know about contemporary teaching and learning with new communications technologies. Each essay, contextualized in what the authors term the 'text's biography', illustrates how changes over a period of twenty-five years in personal circumstances, space and place, and collegial influence, can lead to valuable grounded knowledge. Lankshear and Knobel's intuitions are riveting and of the kind that foreshadow where the field of literacy studies is headed.» (Donna E. Alvermann, University of Georgia)
«These essays represent the historical trek from the invention of the new literacy studies (the study of literacy in its social and cultural contexts) to the invention of the new literacies studies (the study of the social and cultural emergence of new digital literacies) by people who did not walk the path but helped to make it. If all other books were lost, we could begin to reconstruct the whole field from this book alone.» (James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University)