Bücher von Gunther Kress

In his latest book, Gunther Kress explores how children learn to spell in the context of current concerns about early literacy, examining the effects of technological and cultural changes in society.

Based on a close analysis of a series of written texts by primary school children, this book poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when he or she learns to write?; and what can we learn about children, society and ourselves, by looking at this process?

Arguing for a reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice, this volume plays close attention to the plethora of objects which children constantly produce: drawings, cuttings-out, "writings" and collages.

This book explores all aspects of the materiality of writing in an integrated social semiotic and multimodal framework.