Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World
Subtitle
A Framework for Becoming Human
This is a profound look at learning, language and literacy. It is also about brains and bodies. And it is about talk, texts, media and society. These topics, though usually studied in different narrow academic silos, are all part of one highly interactive process — human development. Gee argues that children will need to be resilient, imaginative, hopeful and deliberate learners to survive the deeply complex and unpredictable world in which they live. In a world beset by conflicting ideologies that give rise to hatred, violence and war, Gee urges us to look to a broader set of ideas from seemingly unrelated disciplines for a viable vision of education. This book proposes a framework of principles that can be used to reconceptualize education, specifically literacy education, to better prepare students to be collaborators toward peace and sustainability.
Bio
James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents' Professor. He is a member of the National Academy of Education.
Praise for this book
Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World: A Framework for Becoming Human" maintains that children need to be creative, flexible, purposeful learners if they are to survive the modern world, and urges a multidisciplinary approach to developing and encouraging different ways of viewing the world and its adversities."
Donovan's Bookshelf
Gee’s superb understanding of contemporary contexts and the ways in which children and adults learn are leveraged in this engaging book to make a case for ‘what we should do now’ that is sharp, insightful and profoundly normative. The world would be a better place if all educators took seriously Gee’s recommendations to keep the ‘long battle for human dignity going.'
Diana Hess Dean, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education
