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The New London Group

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Courtney Cazden Bill Cope [|Norman Fairclough] [|James Gee] Allan Luke, Carmen Luke
 * influential career working on classroom discourse, on language learning in multilingual contexts, and on literacy pedagogy
 * wrote curricula addressing cultural diversity in schools
 * researched literacy pedagogy and the changing cultures and discourses of workplaces
 * theorist of language and social meaning
 * linguistic and [|discursive] change in relation to social and cultural change
 * researcher and theorist on language and mind
 * language and learning demands on "[|fast capitalist]" workplaces
 * a researcher and theorist of critical literacy who has brought sociological analysis to bear on the teaching of reading and writing
 * wrote extensively on feminist pedagogy

[|Mary Kalantzis], an Australian, has been involved in experimental social education and literacy curriculum projects, and is particularly interested in citizenship education.

[|Gunther Kress], from Great Britain, is best known for his work on language and learning, semiotics, visual literacy, and the multimodal literacies that are increasingly iportant to all communication, particularly the mass media.

Martin Nakata [|Sarah Michaels]
 * researched and wrote on the issue of literacy in indigenous communities
 * Experience in developing and researching programs of classroom learning in urban settings
 * Focuses central attention on rigorous, coherent, and equitable classroom discourse.