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Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom (Bloomsbury Classics in Linguistics) by Gunther Kress, Carey Jewitt, Jon Ogborn, Tsatsarelis Charalampos, Gunther R. Kress, Charalampos Tsatsarelis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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xiv foreword their actions of doing teaching and learning; and how analysts seek to understand this co-produced, context-bound activity. This comes closer to aligning participants' and analysts' perspectives on the object of inquiry, rather than imposing one's motivated lookings (Sarangi and Candlin, 2001). Because participation is always constituted in multimodal action, the multimodal approach to research adopted by the authors as a means of illuminating the ongoingness of classroom activity is not only harmonious and apt, but provides a classic instance of 'reciprocity of perspectives'. In addition to its theoretical innovativeness, the book demonstrates methodologically how to conduct collaborative, interdisciplinary project research. More specifically, the authors find ways of integrating linguistic and visual data in their analysis of classroom action. The very specificity of the account offered in this book is one of its main strengths, as is the way the authors have refrained from making value judgements about what counts as good and bad practice. In agreeing with them that a good description -'thick description' in Geertz's terms -should serve as a useful resource for thin

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

Author
Gunther Kress, Carey Jewitt, Jon Ogborn, Tsatsarelis Charalampos, Gunther R. Kress, Charalampos Tsatsarelis
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781472522719
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Linguistics, Education, Science

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