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Why Multimodal Literacy Matters : (Re)conceptualizing Literacy and Wellbeing Through Singing-Infused Multimodal, Intergenerational Curricula by Rachel Heydon, Susan O’Neill (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Literacy research has focused increasingly on the social, cultural, and material remaking of human communication. Such research has generated new knowledge about the diverse and interconnected modes and media through which people can and do make meaning and opened up definitions of literacy to include image, gaze, gesture, print, speech, and music. And yet, despite all of the attention to multimodality, questions remain that are fundamental to why multimodal literacy might matter to people and their communities. How, for instance, might multimodal literacy be implicated in wellbeing? And what of the little-researched sonic in multimodal ensembles? For centuries singing, as a basic form of human communication and tool for teaching and learning, has been used to share knowledge and pass on understandings of the world from one generation to another. What, however, are the implications of singing and its effects on people’s prospects for learning and making meaning together? In this thought-provoking book, the authors explore notions of wellbeing and what is created when skipped generations are brought together through singing-infused multimodal, intergenerational curricula. They argue

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Rachel Heydon, Susan O’Neill (auth.)
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9789463007061
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Education, Fiction

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