Multimodality and children’s participation in classrooms: Instances of research
This paper describes how language and literacy classrooms became more participatory, agentive spaces through addressing a central issue in teaching and learning: the forms of representation through which children make their meanings. It reconsiders pedagogic research in under-resourced Gauteng clas...
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This paper describes how language and literacy classrooms became more participatory, agentive spaces through addressing a central issue in teaching and learning: the forms of representation through which children make their meanings. It reconsiders pedagogic research in under-resourced Gauteng classrooms during the period 1994 – 2005, during the first decade of education in post-liberation South Africa. This research shows teachers using multimodality in productive, expressive and creative ways that work against deficit models of children, drawing on their everyday experiences and their existing representational resources. It outlines the theoretical framework supporting the pedagogical approach, that of multimodal social semiotics, known more widely as “multimodality”, and discusses three instances of children’s multimodal practice, in Grades 1 and 2, 7 and 10 respectively. It sums up the role played by multimodality in participation, showing how multimodality enables cognitive, social and affective participation through expanding the semiotic space of the classroom and reconstituting the children as sign-makers.
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| spelling | doaj.art-53c12a0ff60c40d787a0942463cdf5532024-03-18T11:12:18ZengUniversity of the Free StatePerspectives in Education0258-22362519-593X2011-03-0129110.38140/pie.v29i1.1668Multimodality and children’s participation in classrooms: Instances of researchDenise Newfield0University of the Witwatersrand This paper describes how language and literacy classrooms became more participatory, agentive spaces through addressing a central issue in teaching and learning: the forms of representation through which children make their meanings. It reconsiders pedagogic research in under-resourced Gauteng classrooms during the period 1994 – 2005, during the first decade of education in post-liberation South Africa. This research shows teachers using multimodality in productive, expressive and creative ways that work against deficit models of children, drawing on their everyday experiences and their existing representational resources. It outlines the theoretical framework supporting the pedagogical approach, that of multimodal social semiotics, known more widely as “multimodality”, and discusses three instances of children’s multimodal practice, in Grades 1 and 2, 7 and 10 respectively. It sums up the role played by multimodality in participation, showing how multimodality enables cognitive, social and affective participation through expanding the semiotic space of the classroom and reconstituting the children as sign-makers. http://196.255.246.28/index.php/pie/article/view/1668ParticipationClassroomsMultimodalityMultimodal pedagogiesForms of representationLearning |
| spellingShingle | Denise Newfield Multimodality and children’s participation in classrooms: Instances of research Perspectives in Education Participation Classrooms Multimodality Multimodal pedagogies Forms of representation Learning |
| title | Multimodality and children’s participation in classrooms: Instances of research |
| title_full | Multimodality and children’s participation in classrooms: Instances of research |
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| title_short | Multimodality and children’s participation in classrooms: Instances of research |
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| topic | Participation Classrooms Multimodality Multimodal pedagogies Forms of representation Learning |
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