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Why Multimodal Literacy Matters

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Literacy research has focused increasingly on the social, cultural, and material remaking of human communication. Such research has generated new knowledge about the diverse and interconnected mode...
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  • 01 January 2016
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Literacy research has focused increasingly on the social, cultural, and material remaking of human communication. Such research has generated new knowledge about the diverse and interconnected modes and media through which people can and do make meaning and opened up definitions of literacy to include image, gaze, gesture, print, speech, and music. And yet, despite all of the attention to multimodality, questions remain that are fundamental to why multimodal literacy might matter to people and their communities. How, for instance, might multimodal literacy be implicated in wellbeing? And what of the little-researched sonic in multimodal ensembles? For centuries singing, as a basic form of human communication and tool for teaching and learning, has been used to share knowledge and pass on understandings of the world from one generation to another. What, however, are the implications of singing and its effects on people’s prospects for learning and making meaning together? In this thought-provoking book, the authors explore notions of wellbeing and what is created when skipped generations are brought together through singing-infused multimodal, intergenerational curricula. They argue for the import of singing as a multimodal literacy practice and unite theoretical ideas, practical tools, and empirical research findings from a ground-breaking seven-year study of intergenerational singing in multimodal curricula.
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Price: $41.00
Pages: 168
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date: 01 January 2016
ISBN: 9789463007061
Format: Paperback
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"Rachel Heydon and Susan O’Neill’s Why multimodal literacy matters: (Re)conceptualizing literacy and wellbeing through singing-infused multimodal, intergenerational curricula presents an intriguing interweaving of several complex concepts, as the title indicates. In this book, the authors describe their research working with groups at each extreme of the intergenerational divide, namely elders and young children, who are brought together by singing together. Ambitiously, Heydon and O’Neill strive to show how singing, a sonic mode, is an underappreciated but vital dimension of multimodal literacy – one that is uniquely connected to meaning making and identity, and, thus, to wellbeing. (…) The authors have presented a compelling case providing evidence of the many benefits of projects exploring the myriad possibilities of multimodal literacies in practice. In this book, Heydon and O’Neill make a valuable contribution to our current understandings of the nature of multimodal literacy and why it matters." - Terry A. Campbell (2018) Why multimodal literacy matters. International Review of Education, 64: 283-285.