1st Edition
Re-framing Literacy Teaching and Learning in English and the Language Arts
By Richard Andrews
Copyright 2011
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Imaginative and attractive, cutting edge in its conception, this text explicates a model for the integration of language arts and literacy education based on the notion of framing. The act of framing – not frames in themselves – provides a creative and critical approach to English as a subject. Re-framing Literacy breaks new ground in the language arts/literacy field, integrating arts-based and... Read more
Frame I: The big picture
1. What’s in a frame?
2. Framing in the visual arts
3. Framing in the performance arts
4. Visual and verbal frames
5. Frames of reference: framing within a theory of multimodality
Frame II: The case of language
6. Pre-school writing and drawing: before framing
7. Re-framing language arts/English as a school subject8. Zooming in: framing in practice
Frame III: Re-framing the picture
9. Breaking the frame: new horizons for English
10. Panning out: beyond rhetoric and framing
Biography
Richard Andrews is Professor in English at the Institute of Education, University of London.
