James Gee: 18 books
Social Linguistics and Literacies
Ideology in Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural communication, and social theories of mind and meaning, among many other topics. It represents the most current...
Prisoner of the Samurai
Surviving the Sinking of the USS Houston and the Death Railway
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
During World War II, Lt. Rosalie Hamric was an R.N., serving as Charge Nurse in the Psychiatric Ward of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Hospital. At the end of the war, a group of liberated prisoners of war from Southeast Asia, survivors of the sinking of the USS Houston in 1942, was sent to the ward for...
by James Gee
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This book presents a sociocultural approach to language, literacy, and learning that deals directly with the new work order and that integrates concern for schools with concern for workplaces. It helps readers to confront complex problems and to construct their own broader theories.
Social Linguistics and Literacies
Ideology in Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the ‘New Literacy Studies’.
This book serves as a classic introduction to the...
How to do Discourse Analysis
A Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This bestselling textbook is the ideal companion to An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, by leading author, James Paul Gee.
Using a practical how-to approach, Gee provides the tools necessary to work with discourse analysis, with engaging step-by-step tasks featured throughout...
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis
Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis examines the field and presents James Paul Gee’s unique integrated approach which incorporates...
The Anti-Education Era
Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
One of the first champions of the positive effects of gaming reveals the dark side of today's digital and social media
Today'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...
by James Paul Gee, Elisabeth R. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by today’s digital media, forces that are transforming language and learning for good and ill.
They argue that the role of oral language is almost always entirely...
Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World
A Framework for Becoming Human
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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...
by James Paul Gee
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
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...
Unified Discourse Analysis
Language, Reality, Virtual Worlds and Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
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...
by James Paul Gee
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
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...
Situated Language and Learning
A Critique of Traditional Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
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...
Introducing Discourse Analysis
From Grammar to Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
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...
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