In this ground breaking text, the authors span a range of issues central to contemporary school English. They collectively examine how English is shaped by policy, by institutions and by the social relations of the classroom. By connecting policy and social context, the book provides a detailed acco[...]

The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating the visual representation of socially significant issues. The Handbook Offers a wide-range of methods for visual analysis: content analysis, historical[...]

'Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom achieves the rare goal of explicating multimodality as both theory and practice. This is an importantly concrete analysis, derived from extended, careful, and interdisciplinary observation, which challenges our thinking about [...]

People communicate and interact through gesture, gaze, and shifting their posture and position as well as through language. Many of the texts and artefacts people engage with in learning environments also go beyond language - a mix of image, colour, texture, movement, music, writing, and spoken word[...]