Transmediation in the Classroom proposes semiotics-based frameworks that are built on the assumption that humans manipulate sign systems or codes that are meaningful to them so as to make sense of any human experience. The tensions often encountered in reading classrooms by adolescent readers - between what is real and fantasy, artifact and image, object and perception - are made manifest in this book, and the ways in which individuals shape, or are shaped by, sign and symbol systems or program elements that surround their learning and communicating environments are systematically explored. The contributors promote the generative power of transmediation of multiple sign systems, while challenging the privileged position of the language teaching methods still prevalent in some United States public schools.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-10
0820451991
ISBN-13
9780820451992
eBay Product ID (ePID)
115959912
Product Key Features
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Encyclopedias & General Référence
Dimensions
Weight
260g
Height
230mm
Width
160mm
Additional Product Features
Issn
1058-1634
Edited by
Ladislaus M. Semali
Series Part/Volume Number
176
Series Title
Counterpoints
Content Note
Ill.
Author Biography
The Editor: Ladislaus M. Semali is Professor of Education at Penn State University where he teaches media literacy to preservice teachers. He is author of Postliteracy in the Age of Democracy and Literacy in Multimedia America.