Pippa Stein is Assistant Professor in language and literacy education at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and head of the division of Applied English Language Studies.

‘Pippa Stein's book deals with what is maybe the central issue among the vast, daunting problems of education for South Africa's post-apartheid society - the issue of 'literacy'. She shows the starkly desperate problems of so many children, their vibrant response, their energy, imagination, powerful and, often, filled with joy. Out of that she develops a theory around learning and making meaning for conditions of profound diversity, a theory that could only have been thought in South Africa; yet provides a path through, there as much as here or anywhere.’ - Gunther Kress, Professor of Education, Head of School, School of Culture, Language and Communication, Centre for Multimodal Research, Institute of Education, London"…Stein’s Multimodal Pedagogies is a significant, much-needed response to the many perplexing questions presented by an expanded multi-semiotic, multimodal view of literacy and learning." – Language Arts, Vol. 86, No. 2, November 2008

• List of illustrations Acknowledgements 1. A multimodal social semiotic approach 2. Multimodal analysis: an interdisciplinary framework 3. How do I smile in writing?: transformations across modes 4. Drawing the unsayable: the limits of language 5. ‘Fresh Stories’: points of fixing on the semiotic chain 6. Multimodal pedagogies: instances of practice 7. Representation, rights and resources Bibliography Index

Pippa Stein is Assistant Professor in language and literacy education at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and head of the division of Applied English Language Studies.

‘Pippa Stein's book deals with what is maybe the central issue among the vast, daunting problems of education for South Africa's post-apartheid society - the issue of 'literacy'. She shows the starkly desperate problems of so many children, their vibrant response, their energy, imagination, powerful and, often, filled with joy. Out of that she develops a theory around learning and making meaning for conditions of profound diversity, a theory that could only have been thought in South Africa; yet provides a path through, there as much as here or anywhere.’ - Gunther Kress, Professor of Education, Head of School, School of Culture, Language and Communication, Centre for Multimodal Research, Institute of Education, London"…Stein’s Multimodal Pedagogies is a significant, much-needed response to the many perplexing questions presented by an expanded multi-semiotic, multimodal view of literacy and learning." – Language Arts, Vol. 86, No. 2, November 2008

• List of illustrations Acknowledgements 1. A multimodal social semiotic approach 2. Multimodal analysis: an interdisciplinary framework 3. How do I smile in writing?: transformations across modes 4. Drawing the unsayable: the limits of language 5. ‘Fresh Stories’: points of fixing on the semiotic chain 6. Multimodal pedagogies: instances of practice 7. Representation, rights and resources Bibliography Index