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  • Social Linguistics and Literacies

    Ideology in Discourses

    by James Gee ...
    In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the ‘New Literacy Studies’.This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of language, learning and literacy in their social, cultural and political contexts. It shows how ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The New Work Order

    by James Gee ...
    This book presents a sociocultural approach to language, literacy, and learning that deals directly with the new work order and that integrates concern for schools with concern for workplaces. It helps readers to confront complex problems and to construct their own broader theories. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Prisoner of the Samurai

    Surviving the Sinking of the USS Houston and the Death Railway

    by James Gee, Rosalie H. Smith ...
    Courage on the River Kwai—the inspiring true story of one marine's resilience in a World War II POW camp following the Battle of the Sunda Strait.Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, between the islands of Java and Sumatra, the naval cruiser USS Houston sank after taking four torpedo hits by Imperial Japanese warships. Among the survivors clinging to makeshift rafts was James Gee, PFC, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition

    by James Paul Gee ...
    James Paul Gee begins his classic book with "I want to talk about video games--yes, even violent video games--and say some positive things about them." With this simple but explosive statement, one of America's most well-respected educators looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. In this revised edition of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Discourse Analysis

    Theory and Method

    by James Paul Gee ...
    This bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive guide to conducting discourse analysis. The book outlines Gee’s approach, which involves examining how language is used in context to construct meaning, identities, relationships, and social practices.The theoretical framework is built around seven "building tasks" that language performs: significance, practices, identities, relationships, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • How to Do Discourse Analysis

    A Toolkit

    by James Paul Gee ...
    How to Do Discourse Analysis provides a comprehensive toolkit for conducting discourse analysis, offering 26 practical tools to examine how language is used to construct meaning, enact identities, and shape social realities. Written by renowned linguist James Paul Gee, it introduces key concepts like situated meanings, social languages, and Discourses, showing how language both reflects and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Situated Language and Learning

    A Critique of Traditional Schooling

    by James Paul Gee ...
    Series series Literacies
    Why do poor and minority students under-perform in school? Do computer games help or hinder learning? What can new research in psychology teach our educational policy-makers?In this major new book, Gee tackles the 'big ideas' about language, literacy and learning, putting forward an integrated theory that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and applying it to some of the very real problems that face ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Anti-Education Era

    Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning

    by James Paul Gee ...
    One of the first champions of the positive effects of gaming reveals the dark side of today's digital and social mediaToday's schools are eager to use the latest technology in the classroom, but rather than improving learning, the new e-media can just as easily narrow students' horizons. Education innovator James Paul Gee first documented the educational benefits of gaming a decade ago in his ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Audiobook

    How to Do Discourse Analysis

    A Toolkit (Third Edition)

    by James Paul Gee ...
    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    How to Do Discourse Analysis provides a comprehensive toolkit for conducting discourse analysis, offering twenty-six practical tools to examine how language is used to construct meaning, enact identities, and shape social realities. Written by renowned linguist James Paul Gee, it introduces key concepts like situated meanings, social languages, and discourses, showing how language both reflects ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Language and Learning in the Digital Age

    by James Paul Gee, Elisabeth R. Hayes ...
    In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by today’s digital media, forces that are transforming language and learning for good and ill.They argue that the role of oral language is almost always entirely misunderstood in debates about digital media. Like the earlier inventions of writing and print, digital media ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Literacy and Education

    by James Paul Gee ...
    Series series Routledge Key Ideas in Education
    Literacy and Education tells the story of how literacy—starting in the early 1980s—came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one. In this accessible introductory volume, acclaimed scholar James Paul Gee shows readers how literacy "left the mind and wandered out into the world." He traces the ways a sociocultural view of literacy melded with a social view of the mind ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Good Video Games and Good Learning

    Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy, 2nd Edition

    by James Paul Gee ...
    Series Book 67 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
    Good Video Games and Good Learning presents the most important essays by James Paul Gee devoted to the ways in which good video games create good learning. The chapters in this book argue that good games teach through well-designed problem-solving experiences. They also prove that game-based learning must involve more than software and technology and engage with the design of passionate-affinity ... Read more

    $39.09 USD