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Program Lead: Professor Len Unsworth
National School of Education
The Multiliteracies in English & Curriculum Area Learning program addresses teaching and learning of traditional literacies and new forms of multimodal and digital literacy in the English curriculum and other curriculum areas, as well as childhood and adolescent literacies outside of schooling for personal, aesthetic, intellectual, social and political purposes. A key focus is the nature and role of teachers’ and students’ knowledge about the meaning-making resources of language, image, sound, movement, gesture and other modalities in interpreting and creating texts in paper and electronic media. The trajectory of this research embraces education from primary to senior high school, working with school education authorities, communities and teachers to address ongoing and emerging issues of equity in access to existing and new literacies of empowerment in the contemporary, increasingly digital, online and multimodal, communication age.