Exploring multimodal communication as literacy education from a research platform, Multiliteracies & Diversity in Education combines analyses of the changes to communication and pedagogic practice with sound research based activities for multiliteracies classroom projects. The book guides students in developing their knowledge of productive planning and pedagogic shifts, and reveals ways in which all students are able to engage in designing lesson plans and programmes involving new and traditional methods of reading and text construction. It shows how a multiliteracies pedagogic model breaks down the unnatural divides between disciplines, and provides a fresh look at literacy education.

Table of Contents

1. Expanding student capacities: Learning by Design pedagogy; 2. The Transdisciplinary Potential of Multiliteracies: Bodily Performances and Meaning-Making in Health and Physical Education; 3. The Intersection of Aboriginal Knowledges, Aboriginal Literacies and New Learning Pedagogy for Aboriginal Students; 4. 'Art'efacts of Knowing: Multiliteracies and the Arts; 5. Multiliteracies and Pedagogies of New Learning for Students of English as an Additional Language; 6. Communities of Learners: Early years students, new learning, pedagogy and transformations; 7. Closing the gap: A multiliteracies approach to English language teaching for 'at-risk' students in Singapore; 8. Mobilising Learning: Pedagogy for mobile students