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

    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

  • How to Do Discourse Analysis

    A Toolkit

    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

  • An Introduction to Discourse Analysis

    Theory and Method

    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

  • The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis

    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to discourse analysis from critical discourse analysis to multimodal discourse analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. The handbook is divided into eight sections: Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Gender, Race and Sexualities, Narrativity and Discourse, Genre and Register, Spoken ... Read more

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  • Multimodalities and Chinese Students’ L2 Practices

    Positioning, Agency, and Community

    by Min Wang ...
    Multimodalities and Chinese Students’ L2 Practices: Identity, Community, and Literacy explores the complex relations and interactions among multimodality, positioning, and agency in increasingly digitized, multilingual, and multicultural contexts. Min Wang uses interview narratives, WeChat exchanges, and class observations and field notes of three Chinese international students’ lived experiences ... Read more

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  • The Anti-Education Era

    Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning

    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

  • Academic and Professional Writing in an Age of Accountability

    What current theoretical frameworks inform academic and professional writing? What does research tell us about the effectiveness of academic and professional writing programs? What do we know about existing best practices? What are the current guidelines and procedures in evaluating a program’s effectiveness? What are the possibilities in regard to future research and changes to best practices in ... Read more

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  • Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World

    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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Unified Discourse Analysis

    Language, Reality, Virtual Worlds and Video Games

    Discourse Analysis is becoming increasingly "multimodal", concerned primarily with the interplay of language, image and sound. Video Games allow humans to create, live in and have conversations with new multimodal worlds.In this ground-breaking new textbook, best-selling author and experienced gamer, James Paul Gee, sets out a new theory and method of discourse analysis which applies to language, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Introducing Discourse Analysis

    From Grammar to Society

    Introducing Discourse Analysis: From Grammar to Society is a concise and accessible introduction by bestselling author, James Paul Gee, to the fundamental ideas behind different specific approaches to discourse analysis, or the analysis of language in use. The book stresses how grammar sets up choices for speakers and writers to make, choices which express, not unvarnished truth, but perspectives ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Situated Language and Learning

    A Critique of Traditional Schooling

    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

  • Literacy and Education

    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

    $59.99 USD