English in Urban Classrooms is a ground-breaking text that span a range of issues central to contemporary school English. It extends not only to the spoken and written language of classrooms, but also to other modes of representation and communication that are important in English teaching. This includes image, gesture, gaze, movement, and spatial organisation. The team of experienced and expert authors collectively examine how English is shaped by policy, by institutions, and by the social relations of the classroom. By connecting issues of policy and social context, the book provides a...
English in Urban Classrooms is a ground-breaking text that span a range of issues central to contemporary school English. It extends not only to the s...
In this ground breaking text, the authors span a range of issues central to contemporary school English. They collectively examine how English is shaped by policy, by institutions and by the social relations of the classroom. By connecting policy and social context, the book provides a detailed account of factors such as: the characteristics of urban multi-cultural schools teacher formation and tradition the ethos of School English departments the institutional changes that have shaped school English in urban classrooms and students' experiences of learning. The authors examine the spoken and...
In this ground breaking text, the authors span a range of issues central to contemporary school English. They collectively examine how English is shap...
With the recent explosion of technology into the world of education across the globe, this book sets out a framework for rethinking the three key areas of schooling that are most affected by technology's impact on education today: knowledge as curriculum; learning and pedagogy and literacy across the curriculum. A well-known author in this field, Jewitt takes the reader through an analysis of teaching and learning with materials such as CD-ROMs, websites, the Internet, computer programming applications and computer games, relating each in turn to the main curriculum topics.
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With the recent explosion of technology into the world of education across the globe, this book sets out a framework for rethinking the three key a...
The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating the visual representation of socially significant issues.
The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating t...
The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating the visual representation of socially significant issues. The Handbook: * Offers a wide-range of methods for visual analysis: content analysis, historical analysis, structuralist analysis, iconography, psychoanalysis, social semiotic analysis, film analysis and ethnomethodology * Shows how each method can be applied for the purposes of specific research projects. * Exemplifies each approach through detailed analyses of a variety of data,...
The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating t...
Sexual Health Promotion in General Practice provides a menu of options and ideas to meet the wide variety of needs in both urban and rural practices, and those serving populations with different prevalences of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. The book therefore reflects the strategy of The Health of the Nation. It can be used as a practical manual for developing practice policies and as a text for individual reference by the entire primary care team. Published in association with the BMA Foundation for AIDS, The HIV Project, and Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust
Sexual Health Promotion in General Practice provides a menu of options and ideas to meet the wide variety of needs in both urban and rural practices, ...
'Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom achieves the rare goal of explicating multimodality as both theory and practice. This is an importantly concrete analysis, derived from extended, careful, and interdisciplinary observation, which challenges our thinking about how meaning and knowledge are shaped by our modes of communication. The book appeals to a wide range of scholars and practitioners far beyond the science classroom.' Professor Ron Scollon, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University.
This book takes a radically different look at...
'Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom achieves the rare goal of explicating multimodality as both theory and pr...
This book takes a radically different look at communication, and in doing so presents a series of challenges to accepted views on language, on communication, on teaching and, above all, on learning.
Drawing on extensive research in science classrooms, it presents a view of communication in which language is not necessarily communication - image, gesture, speech, writing, models, spatial and bodily codes. The action of students in learning is radically rethought: all participants in communication are seen as active transformers of the meaning resources around them, and this approach...
This book takes a radically different look at communication, and in doing so presents a series of challenges to accepted views on language, on comm...
Multimodality is an innovative approach to representation, communication and interaction which looks beyond language to investigate the multitude of ways we communicate: through images, sound and music to gestures, body posture and the use of space.
The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis, Second Edition provides a comprehensive research tool kit for multimodal analysis, with thirty-four chapters written by leading figures in the field on a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues. This new edition includes twelve new chapters on theoretical and...
Multimodality is an innovative approach to representation, communication and interaction which looks beyond language to investigate the multitude o...
