Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom

by Gunther Kress and Carey Jewitt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472522710
• ISBN13: 9781472522719
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"