Publications
This following is a selection of publications by members of the centre.
Books
Carey Jewitt
Jewitt, C. (2009) Routledge Handbook for Multimodal Analysis. London: Routledge.
The handbook provides a theoretical and methodological tool kit to support students, researchers and academics undertaking multimodal research in the social sciences.
It consists of 24 chapters written by leading international authors in the field of multimodality including Jay Lemke, Gunther Kress, Sigrid Norris, Ron Scollon and Susie Scollon, Brian Street, and Theo van Leeuwen. The chapters are organized into four sections:
1. theoretical and methodological tools for multimodal analysis
2. key factors that shape multimodal representation and communication
3. multimodality across different theoretical perspectives
4. multimodal case studies.
Jewitt, C. (2006) Technology, Literacy and Learning: A Multimodal Approach. London: Routledge.
With the recent explosion of technology into the world of education across the globe, this book sets out a framework for rethinking the three key areas of schooling that are most affected by technology's impact on education today: knowledge as curriculum; learning and pedagogy; and literacy across the curriculum.
The book takes the reader through an analysis of teaching and learning with materials such as CD-ROMs, websites, the internet, computer programming applications and computer games, relating each in turn to the main curriculum topics. Through this detailed scrutiny the following questions emerge:
1. how do the new technologies reshape knowledge as curriculum?
2. how does the use of new technologies in the classroom reshape learning pedagogy?
3. as writing moves from page to screen, what is the impact on students' situated literacy practices and learning? Through these questions, this book demonstrates that modes of representation, technology and curriculum knowledge are fundamentally connected, and describes how teacher and students roles in the classroom could be altered in the face of new technologies.
Jewitt, C., Van Leeuwen, T. (eds) (2001) A Handbook of Visual Analysis. London: Sage.
Diane Mavers
Mavers, D. (2008 forthcoming) Children's Writing and Drawing as Design. New York and London: Routledge.
Gunther Kress
Kress, G.,and Van Leeuwen, T.(2006), Reading Images. The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge.
This second edition of the landmark textbook builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design.
Drawing on a enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning. The book focuses on the structures or 'grammar' of visual design - colour, perspective, framing and composition - and provides the reader with an invaluable 'tool-kit' for reading images, which makes it a must for anyone interested in communication, the media and the arts.
Kress, G., Jewitt, C., Bourne, J., Franks, A., Hardcastle, J., Jones, K. and Reid, E. (2005) English in Urban Classrooms. A multimodal perspective on teaching and learning. London: Routledge Falmer.
In this ground breaking text, the authors span a range of issues central to contemporary school English. They collectively examine how English is shaped by policy, by institutions, and by the social relations of the classroom.
By connecting policy and social context, the book provides a detailed account of factors such as the characteristics of urban multi-cultural schools, teacher formation and tradition, the ethos of school English departments, and the institutional changes that have shaped school English in urban classrooms and students' experiences of learning.
Kress, G. and Van Leeuwen, T.(2001) Multimodal Discourse: the modes and media of contemporary communication. Edward Arnold.
Carey Jewitt and Gunther Kress
Jewitt, C. and Kress, G. (eds) (2003) Multimodal Literacy. New York: Peter Lang.
Jewitt, C., Kress, G., Ogborn, J. and Tsatsarelis, C. (2001) Multimodal Teaching and Learning: Rhetorics of the Science Classroom. London: Continuum.
Richard Andrews
Andrews, R. and Gibson, R. (eds) (2009) As You Like It Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 196pp
Andrews, R. (2009) Argumentation in Higher Education: improving practice through theory and research, New York: Routledge, 233pp
Wyse, D., Andrews, R and Hoffman, J. (eds) (2010) Routledge International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching , Abingdon: Routledge, 540pp
Andrews, R. (2010) Re-framing Literacy: teaching and learning in English and the language arts New York: Routledge, 240pp.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Jeff Bezemer and Gunther Kress
Bezemer, J. and Kress, G. (2008) 'Writing in multimodal texts: a social semiotic account of designs for learning'. Written Communication 25, 2, 166-195 (special issue on writing and new media).
Carey Jewitt
Jewitt, C. (2008) 'Multimodal classroom research'. AERA Review of Research in Education, Vol 32:241-267.
Jewitt, C. (2007) 'A Multimodal Perspective on Textuality and Contexts, Pedagogy and Culture 15 (3): 275-290
Battacharly, R., Jewitt, C., Newfield, D., Reed, Y. and Stein, P. (2007) 'The Policy-Practice Nexus in English Classrooms in Delhi, Johannesburg and London: Teachers and the Textual Cycle' TESOL Quarterly, 41 (3): 465-487.
Carey Jewitt and Gema Moss
Jewitt, C., Moss, G. and Cardini, A. (2007) 'Pace, interactivity and multimodality in teacher design of texts for IWBs'. Learning, Media and Technology, Autumn 32(3): 302-318.
Diane Mavers
Mavers, D. (2007) 'Semiotic Resourcefulness: A Young Child's Email Exchange as Design'. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 7 (2): 155-76
Mavers, D. (2007) 'Investigating how Children Make Meaning in Multimodal Maps', Reflecting Education 3 (1): 24-28 available online
Lewin, C., Mavers, D. and Somekh, B. (2003) 'Broadening Access to the Curriculum through Using Technology to Link Home and School: A Critical Analysis of Reforms Intended to Improve Students' Educational Attainment' The Curriculum Journal 14 (1): 23-53
Mavers, D. and Somekh, B. (2003) 'Mapping Learning Potential: Students' Conceptions of ICT in their World' Assessment in Education 10(3): 409-20.
Mavers, D., Somekh, B. and Restorick, J. (2002) 'Interpreting the Externalised Images of Pupils' Conceptions of ICT: Methods for the Analysis of Concept Maps' Computers and Education 38:187-207.
Caroline Pelletier
Pelletier, C. (2005) 'The uses of literacy in studying computer games: comparing students' oral and visual representations of games' English Teaching: Critique and Practice, vol 4 (1): 40-59. available online
Pelletier, C. (2005) 'Studying games in school: a framework for media education' Digital Games Research Association Conference Proceesings-referred.
Richard Andrews
Agarwal-Hollands, U. and Andrews, R. (2001) 'From scroll to codex…and back again' in Education, Communication, Information, 1:1, Spring 2001, pp59-73.
Book chapters and reports
Jeff Bezemer
Bezemer, J. (in press). 'Displaying Orientation in the Classroom: Students' Multimodal Responses to Teacher Instructions'. Linguistics and Education.
Jeff Bezemer and Carey Jewitt
Bezemer, J. and Jewitt, C. (in press) 'Qualitative Research Methods: Multimodal Analysis'. Handbook of Linguistic Research Methods.
Jeff Bezemer and Gunther Kress
Bezemer, J. and Kress, G. (2008, in press). 'Writing in a Multimodal World of Representation'. Handbook of Writing Development.
Sophia Diamantopoulou
Diamantopoulou, S. (2007)'Tate Britain: Ideas and Factory Action Research Project', London Digest: Multilingual Learners in London, Issue 1, Summer 2007, London Education Research Unit, Institute of Education.
Carey Jewitt
Jewitt, C. (2008 in press). 'Technology, Literacy and Learning: a multimodal approach in J. Kleine, K. Littleton, C. Wood, C. Staarman (eds) Handbook of Educational Psychology, London: Elsevier.
Jewitt, C. (2008) 'Mediating multimodal contexts in classroom practices' in R. Edwards (ed.) Rethinking Contexts for Learning and Teaching. London: Routledge.
Jewitt, C. (2008) 'Multi-modal discourse across the curriculum' in M. Martin-Jones, A. De Mejia (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 3 Discourse and Education New Jersey, USA: Spinger.
Jewitt, C. (2008) 'Multimodal Discourse Analysis: The Case of "Ability" in the UK Secondary School English' in V. Bhatia, J. Flowerder, R. Jones. Advances in Discourse Analysis London: Routledge.
Gunther Kress and Diane Mavers
Kress, G. and Mavers, D. (2005) 'Social Semiotics and Multimodal Texts' in B. Somekh, C. Lewin (eds) Research Methods in the Social Sciences (pp. 172-179) London: Sage
Charalampia Sidiropoulou
Sidiropoulou, C. (2006) Book Review. 'Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Systematic Functional Perspectives'. Journal of Visual Communication, 5 (1), 121-126. London: Sage.
Sidiropoulou, C. (2003) 'Linguistic heterogeneity in Greek primary classrooms: an investigation of bilingual students' literacy skills in comparison with their native classmates'. International Journal of Learning, Vol 10, pp.3585-3599.
Sidiropoulou, C. (2008) 'Social semiotics, Multimodality and Pedagogic Discourse: developing a framework to investigate classroom literacy practices'. 5th International Basil Berstein Symposium, 12-14 July, University of Cardiff
Charalampia Sidiropoulou and Gunther Kress
Kress, G. and Sidiropoulou, C. (2008) 'Classroom design'. In A. Rostavall and S. Selander (eds) Design for Larande. Norstedts Akademiska Forlag, Sweden.
Charalampia Sidiropoulou, Jeff Bezemer and Diane Mavers
Bezemer, J., Mavers, D. and Sidiropoulou,C. (2007) 'Reporting Multimodal Data. A Comparison of Image-based and Script-based Representations of Classroom data'. 40th BAAL Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh.
Papers
Richard Andrews
'Re-framing literacy: teaching and learning in English and the language arts', Centre for Language, Culture and Learning, Goldsmiths, University of London, March 2009
'Towards a comprehensive, contemporary model: writing development' (with Anna Smith), Symposium on Hybridity, Multimodality and New Forms of Composing, AERA convention, San Diego, April 2009
Research Projects
Richard Andrews
ESRC, Research Seminars competition: New forms of doctorate – the influence of multimodality and e-learning on the nature and format of doctoral theses in Education and the social sciences. July 2008, £15,000 over two years
Selected Research Students
Richard Andrews
June Parnell-Parmley, 'E-learning in the medical and educational professions'
Sun-young Choi, 'Online learning of English in Korea'
