Developing Literacy and the Arts in Schools - Paperback

by Georgina Barton (Author)

This book highlights the important artistic-aesthetic literacies inherent in all the arts - dance, drama, literature, media arts, music and visual arts - and shows how they are critical to literacy as a whole.

Author Biography

Georgina Barton is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. She is the discipline leader of literacies and pedagogy and teaches English curriculum and literacy courses in teacher education programmes. Her research focuses on the areas of multimodality, literacies, the arts, and cultural diversity.