Fairytales in Secondary English Classrooms? Exploring Multimodality, Visual Literacy and Student Resistance
@inproceedings{Steeves2015FairytalesIS, title={Fairytales in Secondary English Classrooms? Exploring Multimodality, Visual Literacy and Student Resistance}, author={Nicole H. Peter Steeves}, year={2015} }
The overall purpose of the project was to examine how multimodal texts could be used effectively in the Secondary English classroom. The fairytale unit included in the project, which was created for an English 11 course, featured exploration of student resistance to mediated and popular culture texts through critical reading and producing of original texts. The fairytale unit reflected the theoretical and conceptual frameworks of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, Rosenblatt’s transactional…
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