Multiliteracies in education takes the approach that knowledge is contextually situated and rapidly changing and diverse, which calls for new skills and flexibility, and the ability to work in teams. Chapters are sequenced according to the four pillars of the multiliteracies framework: overt instruction, situated practice, critical framing and transformed practice.

Contents include the following:

• The evolution of literacy to literacies
• Creating classrooms without walls
• Developing cultural literacy
• Multimodal literacy in practice
• Technological literacy
• Historical literacy
• Visual culture literacy
• Meaning making in design
• Multiple thinking skills