Literacy and 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 &quote;left the mind and wandered out into the world.&quote; He traces the ways a sociocultural view of literacy melded with a social view of the mind and speaks to learning in and out of school in new and powerful ways. Gee concludes by showing how the very idea of &quote;literacy&quote; has broadened into new literacies with words, signs, and deeds in contexts enhanced, augmented, and transformed by new technologies.