Multimodal Teaching and Learning

The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom

Gunther Kress, Carey Jewitt, Jon Ogborn, Tsatsarelis Charalampos

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781472522719
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781472571052
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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 opens a new window on the processes of learning.

Table of contents

• Cover-Page
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Rhetorics of the science classroom: A multimodal approach
• 2 Multimodality
• 3 Analysing action in the science classroom
• 4 Shapes of knowledge
• 5 Rethinking learning in the multimodal environment: Learning to be scientific
• 6 Written genres and the transformation of multimodal communication: Students’ signs as evidence of learning
• 7 Materiality as an expression of learning
• 8 Conclusion
• References
• Index
• Copyright