Multiliteracies and Technology Enhanced Education: Social Practice and the Global Classroom features theoretical reflections and approaches on the use of multiliteracies and technologies in the improvement of education and social practices. Assisting educators at different teaching levels and fostering professional development and progress in this growing field, this innovative publication supports practitioners concerned with teaching at both a local and global level.
David R. Cole is a senior lecturer in English and pedagogy at the University of Technology, Sydney. His major research areas are multiliteracies, multiple literacies, and affective aspects of literacy and education. He has worked as an international English teacher on four continents, and has published widely in academic journals including English in Australia, Educational Philosophy and Theory, and Prospect and Curriculum Perspectives. He is currently under contract to write two edited academic books on literacy theory, and has published a novel about Colombia called A Mushroom of Glass (2006). He is presently researching the complex multiple literacies of Sudanese immigrant families living in NSW. [Editor]