Multimodal Teaching and Learning The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom |
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| Author:
| Kress, Gunther
Jewitt, Carey
Ogborn, Jon
Charalampos, Tsatsarelis |
| Series title: | Bloomsbury Classics in Linguistics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4725-7104-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $23.35 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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.