Abstract
Research and educational policies have alerted teachers to the importance of multiliteracies. Communication in society today is characterised by rapidly changing and emergent forms of meaning-making in a context of increased cultural and linguistic diversity. This paper responds to these imperatives, releasing key findings of a critical ethnography concerning interactions between pedagogy and access to multiliteracies among culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Data collection involved 18 days of lesson observations over 10 weeks using field and journal notes, continuous audiovisual and audio recording, and the collection of cultural artefacts. Semi-structured interviewing was also conducted with the teacher, principal, and four students. Data analytic tools included low and high inference coding and pragmatic horizon analysis. Findings concerned the use of overt instruction and situated practice in the teacherâs enactment of the multiliteracies pedagogy. This had a significant influence on the learnersâ ability to access claymation movie designing. Comparisons are made between the learning that occurred for students of the dominant, Anglo-Australian, middle-class culture, and for those who were not. The conclusion addresses relevant literature concerning how to apply the multiliteracies pedagogy to enable meaningful designing.
Highlights
The students in a grade six class had observed a segment of the clay animation movie Chicken Run, which was followed by a guided discussion of the multimodal text
This paper reports significant findings of a study that investigated a teacher’s enactment of the multiliteracies pedagogy in the context of a series of media-based lessons in which students designed claymation movies
Comparisons are made between the learning that occurred for students of the dominant, Anglo-Australian, middle-class culture, and for those who were not
Summary
They’re digging a hole underground, or digging under the fence. What’s another way they tried to escape? 8. Ryan: When they were in the trough
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