The+New+London+Group+(1996)

=The New London Group (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies : designing social futures. Harvard Educational Review, [Electronic Version] 66 (1), 60-93 =

Technologies are changing rapidly and therefore not just one set of standards or skills will constitute the ends of literacy learning. The New London Group discuss the term multiliteracies in terms of the connection between the challenges facing learners and educators within the changing society and a new approach to literacy pedagogy. Throughout the article, The New London Group explains the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of literacy pedagogy. The six design elements that allow us to achieve meaning – Linguistic, visual, audio, gestural and spatial meaning, provide the ‘what’ of literacy pedagogy. Turning the ‘what’ into the ‘how’ of literacy pedagogy comes from the four components of pedagogy – situated practice, overt instruction, critical framing and transformed practice. When multiliteracies pedagogies are incorporated within the classroom successfully then teachers and learners will see themselves as active participants within the changing society.

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