| Verbal/Visual Narrative Texts in Higher Education Contributor(s): Gotti, Maurizio (Editor), Solly, Martin (Editor), Conoscenti, Michelangelo (Editor) |
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ISBN: 303911672X ISBN-13: 9783039116720 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $157.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 378.001 |
| LCCN: 2008024062 |
| Series: Linguistic Insights |
| Physical Information: 394 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The present is a time of major change in the world of higher education. Conceptions of knowledge and learning as well as course provision are being powerfully altered by current socio-political agendas, constantly evolving technology, demographic developments. The question of identity and its construction in narrative are central to reflection on these issues. Indeed the construction of multimodal/hybridized narratives involves discoursal processes where perceptions of culture and identity, attitudinal and evaluative stances are represented, negotiated, marginalized, transformed. This volume presents a rich variety of perspectives on verbal/visual narrative texts in higher education coming from Europe, North America, South Africa, China and Australia. It includes case studies and original research from a wide spectrum of disciplinary domains (political science, law, medicine, biology, ICT, teacher education) set in a range of different education contexts (online communities and classrooms; native-speaker/nonnative-speaker, intercultural and multilingual/multiethnic milieus). |