Literacy and Multimodality Across Global Sites

ISBN-13: 9780815381945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 154 str.

Kendrick, Maureen (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Opis

Research in multimodalities has impacted societies, education systems, and public policies in powerful ways and arguably, the focus on multimodal texts will be central to the most important literacy and learning issues on the current generation. This book focuses specifically on the visual in the everyday, and claims that powerful pedagogies and methodologies can be constructed by focusing on visual texts in previously under-represented contexts. By describing and analyzing visual texts across a broader range of contexts, the book highlights different constructs, issues and emerging questions dealing with the study of literacies and multimodalities.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. "Thinking Like a Child": Synaesthesia, Multimodality and Multilingualism 2. When Multimodality Meets Play 3. Drawings as an Alternative Way of Understanding Young Children’s Constructions of Literacy with Roberta McKay 4. The Affordances and Challenges of Visual Methodologies in Literacy Studies 5. "Taking It Personally": Advenience as Reflexivity in Multimodal Research 6. Final Thoughts and Perspective

O autorze

Maureen Kendrick is Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada.