[multimodality.it] Fwd: Multimodality and Learning Conference 2010
- From: elisabetta.adami@xxxxxxxx
- To: multimodality.it@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:44:06 +0100
Dear all,
This might be of interest.
Best,
elisabetta
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>
> Multimodality and Learning Conference: Environments, Rhetoric,
> Recognition, Play, and Methods
>
> July 6th and 7th 2010
>
> Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London, UK
>
>
> 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: Dr Jonathan Hindmarsh, Kings College, London, UK
>
> Rhetoric and the politics of representation and communication
> Narrative, persuasion, genre, argument, information design
> Keynote: Professor Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of
> Economics, UK
>
> Recognition, evaluation, assessment
> Discourses of accountability, criteria for evaluation, power,
> processes of
> assessment. Key note: 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: Professor Suzanne de Castells, Simon Fraser University,
> Vancover,Canda and Dr Jennifer Jensen, York University, Toronto,
> Canada
> Methodologies
> Multimodal data collection, transcription, analysis, multimodal
> disseminationKeynote: Dr Jennifer Rowsell, Rutgers University,
> New Jersey, USA and Dr
> Kate Pahl, Sheffield University, UK
>
> Call for papers
> We welcome symposia and individual papers on multimodality and
> learning that
> address the conference themes outlined above. Abstracts can be
> submitted
> using the forms available at: www.multimodality.org.uk. Further
> information on
> submitting an abstract will be posted on the website shortly.
>
> All abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Deadline 5pm on 26th
> February 2010.
>
> Registration
> Conference fee: £200 full fee; Students £100. Lunch and light
> refreshments
> included, ccommodation not included. Registration deadline 31
> May 2010
>
> Key dates
> 26th February 2010 Deadline for submission of abstracts
> 31st May 2010 Deadline for registration
> 6th and 7th July 2010 Conference
>
> Organizing committee: Centre for Multimodal Research, Institute
> of Education,
> University of London - Richard Andrews, Jeff Bezemer, Andrew
> Burn, Sophia
> Diamantopoulou, Carey Jewitt, Gunther Kress, Diane Mavers,
> Caroline Pelletier
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