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“Times are Changing and You’ve Got to Keep Up”

Negotiating Multiple Literacies within the Context of Teacher Education

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In recent years, literacy scholars have suggested contemporary literacy pedagogy must engage with the complexities of our globalized society, wherein knowledge and social relationships are constructed amidst collaborative platforms and digitally mediated technologies (Kress, 2010; Lankshear & Knobel, 2011). The contemporary landscape of communication offers novel spaces for facilitating the instant transmitting and tracking of information (e.g., Twitter) enabling collaborative content generation on a wide scale (e.g., Wikipedia).

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Menna, L. (2016). “Times are Changing and You’ve Got to Keep Up”. In: Kosnik, C., White, S., Beck, C., Marshall, B., Goodwin, A.L., Murray, J. (eds) Building Bridges. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-491-6_2

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