Changing Times, Changing Curriculum?
 The Multiliteracies Learning Initiative is a non-for-profit organisation with the sole objective of promoting a greater understanding of multiliteracies learning both in and out of the classroom. The initiative calls upon the expertise of teachers, educational consultants, academics and other professionals who work together to develop and share innovative practices which are backed by research evidence.
What is multiliteracies?
Multiliteracies (or 'multiple literacy practices') recognises that there are many kinds of literacy at work within our society. These include traditional literacy practices using texts such as Shakespeare as well as new literacy practices using texts of popular culture such as films. Social literacy encompasses how we communicate and exchange meaning in our society while professional literacy links with the notion of literacy for school or the workplace (New London Group, 1996).
Multiliteracies also recognises that new technologies are reconceptualising what we mean by 'being literate' in our society. It calls for recognition that multimodality and the modes that we use to communicate meaning within in our society are addressed in the curriculum. Multiliteracies theory is of utmost importance if our children are to develop a critical awareness of how modes converge in new text types to form new ways of communicating and to equip them with the appropriate skills to participate in an ever-changing society.
Contacting Us
Please feel free to contact us for further information about the Multiliteracies Learning Initiative or if you would like to be involved with further research. You can contact Martin (project director) directly through
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