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 dispositions in relation to that knowledge (iconization) and the condensation of the technical and dispositional meanings as 'synoptic eyefuls' in discipline-specific infographics (aggregation). Recognizability concerns the relationship between the appearance of phenomena in reality and the reconfiguration of this reality in images (congruence), the perceptibility or discernibility of the features and contexts of phenomena in images (explicitness), and how images engage their viewers (affiliation). The framework is illustrated by more than 100 images in colour in the e-book and black and white in the paper version and will inform research into multimodal literacy pedagogy that incorporates an understanding of the role of images in the teaching and learning of school science.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars in multimodality, semiotics, literacy education and science education.
| ISBN: | 9780367759216 |
| Publication date: | 18th December 2024 |
| Author: | J R Martin, Len Unsworth |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 280 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Multimodality |
| Genres: |
Linguistics Semiotics / semiology Teaching of a specific subject Language: history and general works |
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 dispositions in relation to that knowledge (iconization) and the condensation of the technical and dispositional meanings as 'synoptic eyefuls' in discipline-specific infographics (aggregation). Recognizability concerns the relationship between the appearance of phenomena in reality and the reconfiguration of this reality in images (congruence), the perceptibility or discernibility of the features and contexts of phenomena in images (explicitness), and how images engage their viewers (affiliation). The framework is illustrated by more than 100 images in colour in the e-book and black and white in the paper version and will inform research into multimodal literacy pedagogy that incorporates an understanding of the role of images in the teaching and learning of school science.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars in multimodality, semiotics, literacy education and science education.
Reading Images for Knowledge Building features in the following genres: Linguistics, Semiotics / semiology, Teaching of a specific subject, Language: history and general works
Reading Images for Knowledge Building is available in Paperback
Reading Images for Knowledge Building was written by J R Martin, Len Unsworth and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Reading Images for Knowledge Building has 280 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in Multimodality series
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