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What Professionals Can Teach Us about Education: A Call for Change
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Rowsell, Jennifer – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2016
After 10 years of interviews with professionals who work across creative and business sectors, the author has drawn together findings in this article to encourage a collapsing of silos between schools and workplaces so that educators can build on untapped expertise from professionals who work and think multimodally. This call for change involves…
Descriptors: Professional Personnel, Educational Change, Literacy, Literacy Education
Historic Australian Conceptualisations of English, Literacy and Multimodality in Policy and Curriculum and Conflicts with Educational Accountability
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Cumming, Joy; Kimber, Kay; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – English in Australia, 2011
Attainment of functional English literacy skills by all students has been a focus of Australian national policy since the 1989 Hobart Declaration (MCEETYA, 1989). This focus underpins current educational accountability policy enacted through the National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). The Adelaide and Melbourne Declarations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Accountability, Functional Literacy
Students' Multi-Modal Re-Presentations of Scientific Knowledge and Creativity
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Koren, Yitzhak; Klavir, Rama; Gorodetsky, Malka – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2005
The paper brings the results of a project that passed on to students the opportunity for re-presenting their acquired knowledge via the construction of multi-modal "learning resources". These "learning resources" substituted for lectures and books and became the official learning sources in the classroom. The rational for the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Scientific Concepts, Multiple Literacies, Educational Environment