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  • Reading Images for Knowledge Building

    Analyzing Infographics in School Science

    by J.R. Martin, Len Unsworth ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    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 ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 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 ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • E-literature for Children

    Enhancing Digital Literacy Learning

    by Len Unsworth ...
    As ICT continues to grow as a key resource in the classroom, this book helps students and teachers to get the best out of e-literature, with practical ideas for work schemes for children at all levels.Len Unsworth draws together functional analyses of language and images and applies them to real-life classroom learning environments, developing pupils’ understanding of ‘text’. The main themes ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Learning from Animations in Science Education

    Innovating in Semiotic and Educational Research

    Edited by Len Unsworth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines educational semiotics and the representation of knowledge in school science. It discusses the strategic integration of animation in science education. It explores how learning through the creation of science animations takes place, as well as how animation can be used in assessing student’s science learning.Science education animations are ubiquitous in a variety of different ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy

    Interpreting and Authoring Digital Multimedia Narratives

    Edited by Len Unsworth, Angela Thomas ...
    Series Book 61 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
    English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy: Interpreting and Authoring Digital Multimedia Narratives is about the fusion of media and narrative, and explores theoretical and practical dimensions of young people’s engagement with contemporary forms of text. It showcases a range of critical interpretative approaches for integrating multimedia narratives into English teaching contexts, including ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • 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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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    Your Undergraduate Dissertation in Health and Social Care provides a practical step-by-step guide to both the theoretical and practical aspects of the process of doing an undergraduate dissertation, equipping the reader with all the skills necessary to plan, conduct and write up a research project successfully.This is a revised edition of Nicholas Walliman′s best-selling Your Undergraduate ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Complexity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John H. Holland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The importance of complexity is well-captured by Hawking's comment: "Complexity is the science of the 21st century". From the movement of flocks of birds to the Internet, environmental sustainability, and market regulation, the study and understanding of complex non-linear systems has become highly influential over the last 30 years. In this Very Short Introduction, one of the leading figures in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • APA Style Simplified

    Writing in Psychology, Education, Nursing, and Sociology

    by Bernard C. Beins ...
    This is a compact but comprehensive guide to writing clearly and effectively in APA style.Demonstrates how to write objective scientific research papers using interesting proseIncorporates guidelines from the 6th edition of the APA publication manualExplores how to develop ideas, connect them to what others have written, and express them clearlyDiscusses the differences between written, oral, and ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Language at the Speed of Sight

    How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It

    by Mark Seidenberg ...
    In this "important, alarming" (New York Times) book, see why so many American students are falling behind in their reading skills while others around the world excel.The way we teach reading is not working, and it cannot continue. We have largely abandoned phonics-based reading instruction, despite research that supports its importance for word recognition. Rather than treating Black English as a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Information

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Luciano Floridi ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We live an information-soaked existence - information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet. Some say we suffer from 'infoglut'. But what is information? The concept of 'information' is a profound one, rooted in mathematics, central to whole branches of science, yet with implications on every aspect of our everyday lives: DNA provides the information to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD