Multimodal Teaching and Learning

Gunther Kress is a Professor, Culture Communication and Societies, at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.Carey Jewitt is a Senior Researcher, Culture Communication and Societies, at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.Jon Ogborn is Professor of Science Education, University of Sussex.Charalampos Tsatsarelis is Director of Research and Developments Centre, The Ziridis Schools, Athens.

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.

• Introduction 1. Rhetorics of the Science Classroom: A Multimodal Approach2. Multimodality3. Analysing Action in the Science Classroom4. Shapes of Knowledge5. Rethinking Learning in the Multimodal Environment: Learning to Be Scientific6. Written Genres and the Transformation of Multimodal Communication: Students' Signs as Evidence of Learning 7. Materiality as an Expression of Learning 8. Conclusion