Includes bibl. references and index.

1. Multiliteracies Matters Multiliteracies and Society -- Australian Snapshot -- Public Schooling and Diversity -- Multiliteracies Teacher -- Multiliteracies Class -- Self-Reflexivity -- Research Validity.

2. Situated and Explicit Pedagogy Overt Instruction: Conceptualizing -- Situated Practice: Experiencing -- Proximal Practice.

3. Critical and Creative Pedagogy Critical Framing -- Transformed Practice -- Transformed Identities.

4. Multimodality, Media and Access Multimodality and Access -- Media and Access -- Trans-mediation and Access -- Agency and Access -- Society and Access.

5. New Social Spaces Dialogic Spaces -- Bodily Spaces -- Embodied Spaces -- Architectonic Spaces -- Screen Spaces -- New Social Spaces.

6. Discourses and Diversity Dominant Discourses -- Primary and Secondary Discourses -- Multiliteracies and Discourses -- New Discourses.

7. Power and Access Power and Excluded Learners -- Power and Print-based Literacies -- Multiliteracies and Power.

8. New Times Multiliteracies Pedagogy: Making Sense -- New Media: New Metalanguages -- Discourses for the New Times -- Multiliteracies Classroom and Society -- Final Word.

Appendix: Pragmatic Horizon Analysis

"The multiliteracies approach to literacy education has become established as an accessible and effective paradigm for classroom practice in the 21st century. The Multiliteracies Classroom enlivens this theory with its vivid description of events in a real classroom. Teachers will identify with the lively transcripts of classroom interactions, and be inspired to widen students’ access to new literacy practices in an increasingly digital and globalised world. The possibilities and constraints that can be encountered when implementing multiliteracies are explored in detail. Educators know from experience that students begin their classroom journey with entirely unequal opportunities for literacy success. The Multiliteracies Classroom does not ignore this reality, highlighting the influence of society’s patterns of power on literacy learning in the digital age. Its key themes provide a blueprint for the future of literacy research and practice." (Book Cover)