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A Case Study on the Implementation of Disciplinary Literacy with Multimodal Design in Social Studies
Direct linkJohn J. Castaldo – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Social studies education provides education researchers with a less common opportunity to discover multimodal instructional methods for disciplinary literacy. During a 12-week period in 2021, four social studies teachers with at least one history course in a large suburban Mercer County, New Jersey school district participated in a case study to…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, History Instruction, Courses
Ciotoli, Francesca M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Pedagogy that centers primarily on oral and written language significantly limits the educational progress of students with disabilities because it may not regularly afford them opportunities to express what they have learned. It stands to reason that increased opportunities for expression through multiple ways or modes of meaning-making will lead…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Photography, Self Expression, Students with Disabilities
Christensen, Margarette – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation articulates a writing pedagogy based on a theory of "intermodality" to help writing instructors navigate the affordances and challenges of multimodal composition. Drawing from recent discoveries in neuroscience about how the brain makes meaning, I situate this pedagogy of intermodality--literally, "between the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Neurosciences, Brain, Rhetoric
Cicione, Phillip M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The main focus of this dissertation is the literacy practices of students in a high school International Baccalaureate (IB) English classroom. The students demonstrated their meaning of texts that were studied as part of the curriculum in order to prepare them for their Formal Oral Commentaries. This was a mandated assessment of the IB English…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, English Instruction, Student Projects, High School Students
Deever, Walter Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2012
More than half of adults in the USA have quantitative literacy ratings at or below a basic level. This lack of literacy often becomes a barrier to employability. To overcome this barrier, adults are returning to college to improve their quantitative skills and complete an undergraduate education, often through an accelerated degree program. A…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Adult Learning, Nontraditional Students, Workshops
Oldakowski, Timothy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This descriptive study investigates what happens when an English Language Arts teacher implements multimodal instruction in his senior-level World Literature course. The study is grounded in theories of transmediation and New Literacy Studies and examines the following research questions: (1) What does multimodal instruction enable students to do…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, English Instruction, Language Arts
