Len Unsworth
I am Professor of English and Literacies Education at the Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia. My work is in educational semiotics, linguistics and literacy, and English education from the beginning of schooling to the senior secondary school years
Subjects: Education, English Language & Linguistics
Biography
Professor Len Unsworth is the Research Director of Educational Semiotics in English and Literacy Pedagogy at LSIA. Len has been involved in educational research for over 30 years, including six recent Australian Research Council funded projects. His key research interests include: literacy and learning in school curriculum areas; literature for children and adolescents; literacy development in the English curriculum K-12; and the pedagogic role of explicit knowledge about language and the meaning-making resources of images and image-language interaction in both paper and digital media texts, including animation and film. Prior to commencing at ACU in 2014, Len was Professor in Education at Griffith University, following earlier roles as Head of the School of Education at the University of New England and Head of the School of Development and Learning in the Faculty of Education at the University of Sydney.Education
-
PhD University of Sydney, 1996
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
-
Literacy education from pre-school to matriculation
Children’s and adolescent’s literature and literacy development
E-literature for children and adolescents
Information and communication technology and literacies
Multiliteracies
Language and literacy in curriculum area
Learning and teaching
Systemic functional linguistics in literary and literacy research and education
Functional grammar in school curriculum
Genre theory
The semiosis of explanation in education
Books
News
New Book - Open Access - Multimodal Literacy in School Science
By: Len Unsworth
Multimodal Literacy in
School Science
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory,
Research and Pedagogy
Len Unsworth, Russell Tytler, Lisl Fenwick, Sally
Humphrey, Paul Chandler, Michele Herrington and
Lam Pham
This book establishes a new theoretical and practical
framework for multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused
with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high
school biology, chemistry and physics. It builds a
compatible alignment of multiple representation and
representation construction approaches to science
pedagogy with the social semiotic, systemic functional
linguistic based approaches to explicit teaching of
disciplinary literacy.
This book will be of interest to researchers, teacher
educators and postgraduate students in the field of science
education. It will also have appeal to those in literacy
education and social semiotics.
Multimodal Literacy in School Science is available as an
Open Access eBook, free to download from
https://www.taylorfrancis.com