Mary Kalantzis is Professor in the Department of Education, Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a world leader in the ‘new literacy studies’, focusing on multimodality and diversity in contemporary communications. In recent years she worked to conceptualize the nature of communication and learning in the digital age, focusing on the policy, practice and pedagogical design implications of new technologies in education, from early childhood to higher education. With Bill Cope, she is co-author or editor of: "Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures" .
With Mary we speak about the origins and relevance of this concept en manifest (1995) developed by the 'New London Group' (US) as an approach to literacy theory and pedagogy with 2 key aspects: linguistic diversity and multimodal forms of linguistic expression and representation.
