Visualisation has been a critical means of scientific reasoning, knowledge development, and
communication. In science classrooms, visualisation plays significant roles for teaching and …

This engaging and practical volume looks at discourse strategies and how they can be used
to facilitate and enhance science teaching and learning within the classroom context …

This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary
literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school …

The use of group drawing to promote student‐generated representation is a common
instructional strategy as it combines the benefits of using visual representation and …

“Science is not just a body of knowledge that reflects current understanding of the world; it is
also a set of practices used to establish, extend, and refine that knowledge”(NRC, 2012, p …

Teaching and learning in science disciplines are dependent on multimodal communication.
Earlier research implies that students may be challenged when trying to interpret and use …

Previous studies have documented the promising results from student‐constructed
representations, including stop‐motion animation (SMA), in supporting mechanistic …

This paper examines the affordances of physical objects (eg apparatus, models,
manipulatives) as they were used by teachers and students to make meaning in …

There is currently a lack of systematic study examining the integration of verbal-visual
elements in science textbooks. In particular, few research has investigated how different …

This paper reports on a case study of undergraduate biology students' drawing‐based
modeling and how this process plays out in naturalistic dialogues. Recent research has …