Professional Book Reviews: Movement in Literacy: New Directions in Multilingual, Multicultural, Multinational, and Multimodal Literacy Studies

This column features professional and academic resources for literacy educators exploring multilingual, multicultural, multinational, and multimodal literacies for an increasingly global and digitally networked world. In these print and electronic materials, readers will find support for: teaching code-switching to strengthen students’ language awareness (Code-Switching Lessons by Rebecca Wheeler and Rachel Swords); deconstructing dominant discourses in children’s literature (Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors by Maria José Botelho and Masha Kabakow Rudman); applying a critical multicultural perspective across disciplines (Critical Multiculturalism: Theory and Praxis edited by Stephen May and Christine Sleeter); assessing copyright and fair use in digital learning (Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning by Renee Hobbs, http://copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com); and envisioning the next generation of research in the field of literacy studies (The Future of Literacy Studies edited by Mike Baynham and Mastin Prinsloo). Collectively, these resources invite literacy educators and learners to engage the opportunities and tensions of literate lives that reach across linguistic, cultural, and semiotic boundaries in a globally networked world.