Multimodal Approaches to Research and Pedagogy

Preface, Carey Jewitt 1. Challenges and Opportunities of Multimodal Approaches to Education in South Africa Arlene Archer and Denise Newfield Part I: Recognising Resources: Multimodal Texts and Practices 2. "The Pen Talks My Story": South African Children's Multimodal Storytelling as Artistic Practice Susan Harrop-Allin 3. Resources, Representation and Regulation in Civil Engineering Drawing: An Autoethnographic Perspective Zach Simpson 4. Arguing Art Joni Brenner and Arlene Archer 5. Teaching Visual Narratives Using a Social Semiotic Framework: The Case of Manga Cheng-Wen Huang 6. Students' Mindmaps of the Role of Technology in Academic and Social Communication Networks Cheryl Brown and Laura Czerniewicz 7. Mobile Literacies: Messaging, txt and Social Media in the m4Lit Project Marion Walton Part II: Redesigning Resources: Multimodal Pedagogies and Access 8. Design: The Rhetorical Work of Shaping the Semiotic World Gunther Kress 9. Multimodality and Medicine: Designing for Social Futures Rachel Weiss 10. An Aesthetic Language for Teaching and Learning: Multimodality and Contemporary Art Practice David Andrew 11. Jewellery Students as Designers of Meaning: A Multimodal Approach to Semiotic Resources Safia Salaam 12. Designing Assessment of Multimodal Representations of Themes from 'Pleasure Reading' Yvonne Reed