Past Events

Multimodality and Learning Conference: Environments, Rhetoric, Recognition, Play, and Methods
July 6th and 7th 2010
Institute of Education, London
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Aim and scope
The overall aim of the conference is to explore multimodal perspectives on learning and to open up theoretical, methodological and pedagogical questions and debate.The conference will be of interest to educational practitioners, research students,researchers and academics from a variety of disciplines including semiotics, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and design.

Thematic strands

Environments of learning: institutional, work based, and beyond
School, home, work places, museums, digital environments
Keynote and abstract: Dr Jonathan Hindmarsh, Kings College, London, UK Rhetoric and the politics of representation and communication
Narrative, persuasion, genre, argument, information design
Keynote and abstract: Professor Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of Economics, UK Recognition, evaluation, assessment
Discourses of accountability, criteria for evaluation, power, processes of assessment
Keynote and abstract: Professor Gunther Kress, Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Play: games, experience, and learning
Oral traditions, ludic modes, cultures of play, play and creativity
Keynote and abstract: Professor Suzanne de Castells, Simon Fraser University, Vancover,
Canda and Dr Jennifer Jenson, York University, Toronto, Canada Methodologies
Multimodal data collection, transcription, analysis, multimodal dissemination
Keynote and abstract: Dr Jennifer Rowsell, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and Dr
Kate Pahl, Sheffield University, UK


Autumn Term Seminar
Displaying Sexuality: camp, gay sailors and hidden histories in the Maritime Museum.
Dr Pam Meecham
Tuesday 24 November 2009, 5.30pm
Room 744, IOE Bedford Way
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Visual and Multimodal Resarch: Postgraduate Research Student Forum
Autumn Term
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Seminar
The Use of Video in Educational Research
Centre for Multimodal Research
19th March 2009, 17.30-19.00 Room 777
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Dissemination Event
Gains and Losses: Changes in representation, knowledge and pedagogy in learning resources
Gunther Kress & Jeff Bezemer
Discussants: John Yandell & Gemma Moss
31 March 2009, 5.30-7.30pm, followed by a wine reception
London, Institute of Education, Drama Studio
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International Conference
Thursday 19 and Friday 20 June 2008
Multimodality and Learning: New Perspectives on Knowledge, Representation and Communication
Centre for Multimodal Research
19-20 June 2008
Franklin Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, Waterloo, London

Aim
The aim of this conference is to explore multimodal perspectives on learning. It will build on and develop a growing body of multidisciplinary research, including studies in conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology, ethnography and social semiotics.

Focus
Through parallel paper presentations, plenary panel discussions and keynotes, questions and debate will be opened up around
modes, media and technology: What does it mean to learn using the potentials and constraints of different modes, media and technologies?

Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment: What does multimodality mean for curriculum, pedagogies and forms of assessment?

diversity of learning environments: What does it mean to make multimodality in different social, cultural, modal, medial, formal, informal, global, and local environments for learning?

Keynote Speakers
Charles Goodwin, UCLA
Jay Lemke, University of Michigan
Roger Saljo, University of Göteborg
Gunther Kress, Institute of Education

Participants
The conference will be of interest of teachers, (doctoral) researchers, and academics. Issues will de addressed theoretically, empirically and pedagogically. The range of learning inside and outside schools.

Call for papers and registration
A call for papers will be published on this website in October 2007. Registration opens 1st November 2007
ABSTRACTS
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Seminar
Wednesday 6th February 2008
Multimodality and Reading Seminar
Centre for Multimodal Research
17.30 - 19.00 - Room 822

Gemma Moss
Where does multimodality lie? Understanding the relations betwen texts, contexts and readers through the study of literacy events

This presentation will consider ways of combining ethnographic observation of reading as a socially-situated practice with multimodal analysis of text design. In particular it will argue that the potential different kinds of reading paths depend upon thier relationship to particular contexts of use. The literacy event provides an ideal vehicle for capturing this dynamic.

John Yandell
Design as evidence of reading

In the new National Curriculum, schools are expected to engage with multimodal texts as readers but not as writers. But what counts as evidence of students' ability to understand and intepret the texts that they read? Focusing on work by two Year 8 students in the course of their exploration of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the presentation will suggest that students' production of irreducibly multimodal texts provides compelling evidence of their achievements as readers.

For more information contact Sarah Gelcich