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Children'S Literature And Computer Based Teaching

By: Unsworth, Len,Thomas, Angela,Simpson, Alyson M.

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Children'S Literature And Computer Based Teaching

By: Unsworth, Len,Thomas, Angela,Simpson, Alyson M.

Provides information on ways to implement lessons and activities in children's literature through information and communications technology.

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0335216366

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Reading Images for Knowledge Building

Analyzing Infographics in School Science

By: J.R. Martin,Len Unsworth

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Reading Images for Knowledge Building

Analyzing Infographics in School Science

By: J.R. Martin,Len Unsworth

This innovative volume provides a new analytic framework for understanding how meaning-making resources are deployed in images designed for knowledge building in school science. The framework enables analyses of science images from the perspectives of both their complexity and recognizability. Complexity deals with the technical and abstract knowledge of school science (technicality), evaluative dispositions in relation to that knowledge (iconization) and the condensation of the technical and dispositional meanings as ‘synoptic eyefuls’ in discipline-specific infographics (aggregation). Recognizability concerns the relationship between the appearance of phenomena in reality and the reconfiguration of this reality in images (congruence), the perceptibility or discernibility of the features and contexts of phenomena in images (explicitness), and how images engage their viewers (affiliation). The framework is illustrated by more than 100 images in colour in the e-book and black and white in the paper version and will inform research into multimodal literacy pedagogy that incorporates an understanding of the role of images in the teaching and learning of school science. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in multimodality, semiotics, literacy education and science education.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000915468

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Literacy for Digital Futures

Mind, Body, Text

By: Kathy A. Mills,Len Unsworth,Laura Scholes

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Literacy for Digital Futures

Mind, Body, Text

By: Kathy A. Mills,Len Unsworth,Laura Scholes

The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy by addressing knowledge as contextualised, embodied, multimodal, and digitally mediated. In today’s world of technological breakthroughs, social shifts, and rapid changes to the educational landscape, literacy can no longer be understood through established curriculum and static text structures. To prepare teachers, scholars, and researchers for the digital future, the book is organised around three themes – Mind and Materiality; Body and Senses; and Texts and Digital Semiotics – to shape readers’ understanding of literacy. Opening up new interdisciplinary themes, Mills, Unsworth, and Scholes confront emerging issues for next-generation digital literacy practices. The volume helps new and established researchers rethink dynamic changes in the materiality of texts and their implications for the mind and body, and features recommendations for educational and professional practice.

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1000687082

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E-literature for Children

Enhancing Digital Literacy Learning

By: Len Unsworth

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E-literature for Children

Enhancing Digital Literacy Learning

By: Len Unsworth

These practical ideas, suggestions and real-life experiences will help you to understand the differences and similarities of the literary experience for children through classic, modern and leading-edge narratives in both book and computer formats.

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041533330X

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Multimodal Literacy in School Science

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy

By: Len Unsworth,Russell Tytler,Lisl Fenwick,Sally Humphrey,Paul Chandler,Michele Herrington,Lam Pham

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Multimodal Literacy in School Science

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy

By: Len Unsworth,Russell Tytler,Lisl Fenwick,Sally Humphrey,Paul Chandler,Michele Herrington,Lam Pham

This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school biology, chemistry and physics. It builds a compatible alignment of multiple representation and representation construction approaches to science pedagogy with the social semiotic, systemic functional linguistic-based approaches to explicit teaching of disciplinary literacy. The early part of the book explicates the transdisciplinary negotiated theoretical underpinning of the MDL framework, followed by the research-informed repertoire of learning experiences that are then articulated into a comprehensive framework of options for the planning of classroom work. Practical adoption and adaptation of the framework in biology, chemistry and physics classrooms are detailed in separate chapters. The latter chapters indicate the impact of the collaborative research on teachers' professional learning and students’ multimodal disciplinary literacy engagement, concluding with proposals for accommodating emerging developments in MDL in an ever-changing digital communication world. The MDL framework is designed to enable teachers to develop all students' disciplinary literacy competencies. This book will be of interest to researchers, teacher educators and postgraduate students in the field of science education. It will also have appeal to those in literacy education and social semiotics. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Routledge

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1000531430

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EBOOK: Children's Literature and Computer Based Teaching

By: Len Unsworth,Angela Thomas,Alyson Simpson,Jennifer Asha

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EBOOK: Children's Literature and Computer Based Teaching

By: Len Unsworth,Angela Thomas,Alyson Simpson,Jennifer Asha

“This stellar book extends teachers’ thinking well beyond 'book spaces' and into 'digital spaces' by offering theorized approaches to analyzing children’s literature across media, and careful descriptions of effective learning activities that are rich in detail and practical advice. This book (and its digital spaces) is an indispensable guide to engaging with children’s literature and new digital media.” Michele Knobel, Montclair State University, USA. “The book overall is exciting, informative and practical, outlining important theoretical perspectives and ideas while also providing much wisdom and advice to teachers about how to transform their literary programs.” Frances Christie, Emeritus Professor of Language andLiteracy Education, University of Melbourne and HonoraryProfessor of Education, University of Sydney, Australia. This book connects classroom teaching of children’s literature with the digital age. It celebrates the charm of children’s literature and its role in literacy development, as well as the appeal of information and communications technology (ICT) to students and its capacity to enrich students’ learning and enjoyment of literary texts. The authors outline the ways in which children’s literature is developing new dimensions, for example: The re-publication of children’s books on CD ROM and the world wide web Web resources for working with literary texts, including e-mail discussion groups Children’s participation in the collaborative construction of online narratives The book provides practical guidance for teachers who areinexperienced with ICT. It describes and discussesimplementation of activities that extend traditional approaches toliterary texts and take advantage of available technology.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335228151

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Nicola Barker

Critical Essays

By: Nicola Barker,Ben Masters,Daniel Marc Janes,Len Platt,Ginette Carpenter,Beccy Kennedy,Christopher Vardy,Huw Marsh,Alice Bennett,Eleanor Byrne

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Nicola Barker

Critical Essays

By: Nicola Barker,Ben Masters,Daniel Marc Janes,Len Platt,Ginette Carpenter,Beccy Kennedy,Christopher Vardy,Huw Marsh,Alice Bennett,Eleanor Byrne

Nicola Barker's exuberant novels here receive the scholarly attention they deserve in a collection of essays which moves chronologically through her oeuvre. The chapters are broad-ranging, placing Barker's work in its contemporary context and collectively making a convincing case for her importance as one of our most inventive novelists. Contents Foreword Nicola Barker The Barkeresque Mode: An Introduction Berthold Schoene Indie Style: Reversed Forecast and a Turn-of-the-Century Aesthetic Ben Masters 'Temporary People': Wide Open as an Island Narrative Daniel Marc Janes 'You grew up in this shithole, then?': Literary Geographics and the Thames Gateway Series Len Platt 'The Pair of Opposites Paradox': Ambivalence, Destabilization and Resistance in Five Miles from Outer Hope Ginette Carpenter 'Woah there a moment. Time out!': Slowing Down in Clear: A Transparent Novel Beccy Kennedy Beneath the Thin Veneer of the Modern: Medievalism in Darkmans Christopher Vardy Burley Cross Postbox Theft as Comedy Huw Marsh 'Tuning into My "Awareness Continuum"': Optimized Attention in The Yips Alice Bennett Exuberant Narration as Metaphysical Currency in In the Approaches Berthold Schoene The Pursuit of Happiness in H(A)PPY, or What a Difference an (A) Makes Eleanor Byrne Notes on Contributors Index

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Gylphi Limited

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1780240945

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Writing London and the Thames Estuary

1576-2016

By: Len Platt

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Writing London and the Thames Estuary

1576-2016

By: Len Platt

Writing London and the Thames Estuary is an ambitious study of place and identity which resonates deeply against the troubled politics of contemporaneity. Drawing on a broad range of cultural materials including novels, film, theatre, tourist literature, topography, chorology and sociological writing, Len Platt traces the making of the estuary as margin by a metropolis that has been dependent on this region, sometimes for its very survival. Drawing on writers and artists ranging from Middleton, Defoe, Pepys, Dickens, Conrad and T.S. Eliot through to such contemporary figures as Iain Sinclair, Nicola Barker, Tracy Emin and Billy Childish, Platt offers a fascinating insight into the formation of ‘estuary grotesque’, the social dismissal out of which post-Brexit politics have emerged to such controversy.

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BRILL

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900434666X

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Functional Grammatics

Re-conceptualizing Knowledge about Language and Image for School English

By: Mary Macken-Horarik,Kristina Love,Carmel Sandiford,Len Unsworth

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Functional Grammatics

Re-conceptualizing Knowledge about Language and Image for School English

By: Mary Macken-Horarik,Kristina Love,Carmel Sandiford,Len Unsworth

This book provides a re-conceptualization of grammar in a period of change in the communication landscape and widening disciplinary knowledge. Drawing on resources in systemic functional linguistics, the book envisions a ‘functional grammatics’ relevant to disciplinary domains such as literary study, rhetoric and multimodality. It re-imagines the possibilities of grammar for school English through Halliday’s notion of grammatics. Functional Grammatics is founded on decades of research inspired by systemic functional linguistics, and includes studies of grammatical tools useful to teachers of English, research into visual and multimodal literacies and studies of the genre–grammar connection. It aims to be useful to the interpretation and composition of texts in school English, portable in design across texts and contexts and beneficial for language development. The book will be of interest to researchers and teacher educators, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students and practicing teachers committed to evidence-based professional development.

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Routledge

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1317364996

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E-literature for Children

Enhancing Digital Literacy Learning

By: Len Unsworth

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Enhancing Digital Literacy Learning

By: Len Unsworth

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Multimodal Literacy in School Science

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy

By: Len Unsworth

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Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy

By: Len Unsworth

This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school biology, chemistry and physics. It builds a compatible alignment of multiple representation and representation construction approaches to science pedagogy with the social semiotic, systemic functional linguistic based approaches to explicit teaching of disciplinary literacy. The early part of the book explicates the transdisciplinary negotiated theoretical underpinning of the MDL framework, followed by the research-informed repertoire of learning experiences that are then articulated into a comprehensive framework of options for the planning of classroom work. Practical adoption and adaptation of the framework in biology, chemistry and physics classrooms are detailed in separate chapters. The latter chapters indicate the impact of the collaborative research on teachers professional learning and students' multimodal disciplinary literacy engagement, concluding with proposals for accommodating emerging developments in MDL in an ever-changing digital communication world. The MDL framework is designed to enable teachers to develop all students 'disciplinary literacy competencies. This book will be of interest to researchers, teacher educators and postgraduate students in the field of science education. It will also have appeal to those in literacy education and social semiotics.

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Functional Grammatics

Re-conceptualizing Knowledge about Language and Image for School English

By: Mary Macken-Horarik,Kristina Love,Carmel Sandiford,Len Unsworth

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Re-conceptualizing Knowledge about Language and Image for School English

By: Mary Macken-Horarik,Kristina Love,Carmel Sandiford,Len Unsworth

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Reading Images for Knowledge Building

Analyzing Infographics in School Science

By: J.R. Martin,Len Unsworth

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Analyzing Infographics in School Science

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Managing the Language Program

Children's Literature in the Primary Classroom

By: Len Unsworth

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Children's Literature in the Primary Classroom

By: Len Unsworth

Primary teacher reference book which considers the resource of children's literature; outlines strategies which provide for the range of reading experiences within the class; and suggests ways of planning classroom programs. Includes a list of references to children's books and a bibliography.

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Choosing and Using Information Books in Junior Primary Science

By: Len Unsworth

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Choosing and Using Information Books in Junior Primary Science

By: Len Unsworth

Reference book for primary school teachers which considers the interdependence of learning and literacy development in science education; the evaluation of factual texts for classroom learning in science; text-based teaching strategies and the language and literacy focus of effective science programs. Includes a bibliography and list of references to children's books.

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Beginning Reading with Children's Literature

By: Len Unsworth,Mary O'Toole

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By: Len Unsworth,Mary O'Toole

Primary-early childhood teacher reference book which considers early reading development, planning and managing whole class programs and explores further dimensions to classroom work with children's literature. Includes a bibliography and a list of references to children's books.

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Children'S Literature And Computer Based Teaching

Children'S Literature And Computer Based Teaching

Reading Images for Knowledge Building

Reading Images for Knowledge Building

Literacy for Digital Futures

Literacy for Digital Futures

E-literature for Children

E-literature for Children

Multimodal Literacy in School Science

Multimodal Literacy in School Science

EBOOK: Children's Literature and Computer Based Teaching

EBOOK: Children's Literature and Computer Based Teaching

Nicola Barker

Nicola Barker

Writing London and the Thames Estuary

Writing London and the Thames Estuary

Functional Grammatics

Functional Grammatics

E-literature for Children

E-literature for Children

Multimodal Literacy in School Science

Multimodal Literacy in School Science

Functional Grammatics

Functional Grammatics

Reading Images for Knowledge Building

Reading Images for Knowledge Building

Managing the Language Program

Managing the Language Program

Choosing and Using Information Books in Junior Primary Science

Choosing and Using Information Books in Junior Primary Science

Beginning Reading with Children's Literature

Beginning Reading with Children's Literature

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