Teaching and learning involve more than just language. The teachers'
use of gestures, the classroom spaces they occupy and the movements
they make, as well as the tools they use, work together with language
as a multimodal ensemble of meanings. Embodied teaching is about
applying the understandings from multimodal communication to the
classroom. It is about helping teachers recognise that the moves they
make and the tools they use in the classroom are part of their
pedagogy and contribute to the design of the students’ learning
experience. In response to the changing profile and needs of learners
in this digital age, pedagogic shifts are required. A shift is the
evolving role of teachers from authority of knowledge to designers of
learning. This book discusses how, using examples drawn from case
studies, teachers can use corporeal resources and (digital) tools to
design learning experiences for their students. It advances the
argument that the study of the teachers' use of language, gestures,
positioning, and movement in the classroom, from a multimodal
perspective, can be productive. This book is intended for educational
researchers and teacher practitioners, as well as curriculum
specialists and policy makers. The central proposition is that as
teachers develop a semiotic awareness of how their use of various
meaning-making resources express their unique pedagogy they can use
these multimodal resources aptly and fluently to design meaningful
learning experiences. This book also presents a case for further
research in educational semiotics to understand the embodied ways of
meaning-making in the pedagogic context.
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Perspectives from Multimodality
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ISBN
9781000098464
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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