A survey of middle years students' perceptions of aesthetic literacies, their importance and inclusion in curriculum and the workforce

G Barton, AH Le - The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022 - Springer
The ways in which we communicate have expanded substantially. Not only are we expected
to read and create print-based text but also those that include images and other modes. To …

Disciplinary Literacies In The Arts: Semiotic Explorations of Teachers' Use of Multimodal and Aesthetic Metalanguage

G Barton, K Burke, P Freebody - International Journal of Education & the …, 2022 - ijea.org
Effective arts learning requires the development of important literacies. While investigation of
discipline-specific literacies has filtered the literature, it is unclear if these literacies are …

The importance of aesthetics for curriculum and job readiness: an exploration of student, teacher, and employer perceptions through Appraisal Theory

G Barton, AH Le - Curriculum Perspectives, 2023 - Springer
Aesthetics is a broad topic viewed from a number of perspectives. This paper understands
aesthetics to involve beauty and design, and it is used to communicate meaning, particularly …

The LAB school project: a socio-ecological investigation into the intersection between literacy, the arts and wellbeing in a rural early years classroom setting

G Barton, M Fanshawe - The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024 - Springer
This study examined the piloting of a literacy, arts and wellbeing (LAB) project in a rural
school in Queensland, Australia. The research involved a Year 1 class (n= 24) participating …

Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom

GC Zapata - The International Journal of Pedagogy and …, 2023 - search.proquest.com
This article explores the enactment of inclusive pedagogical practices in an intermediate,
Spanish-as-a-second-language mixed writing class in an R1 university in Texas during the …

Reflecting on embodied experience through an expert lens: drama as a pedagogic tool for developing academic language proficiency in the middle-primary school

R Cleeve Gerkens, R Sallis… - Research in Drama …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reports on a major study which examined how middle-primary teachers (of
students aged 8-10) in Australia used drama-rich pedagogy in their literacy programs to …

A critical semiotic investigation of Asian stereotypes in the short film Bao: Implications for classroom practice

G Barton, N Lowien, Y Hu - The Australian Journal of Language and …, 2021 - Springer
Research in a broad range of disciplines has explored how specific modes of
communication can contribute to meaning-making in diverse texts such as picture books …

Teaching poetry using Instagram: An international, interdisciplinary study with adolescents mobilizing literacy and the arts

A Lemieux, G Barton, D Lewkowich… - Language and …, 2024 - journals.library.ualberta.ca
Young people engage daily with various social media platforms to communicate with each
other across the globe. Adolescents not only share text, but also use images and sound to …

Antidualisms in maker literacies research: process, materialities, mappings

A Lemieux - Éducation & didactique, 2021 - cairn.info
This article returns to the centrality of craft-making as a push to consider ontological
antidualisms and further considerations for materials, humans, nonhuman, and more-than …

Investigating the Benefits and Challenges of Workplace Volunteering Experiences for International Students' Employability Literacies

B Georgina, K Marie, M Watson… - Journal of …, 2022 - research.usq.edu.au
For many international students the prospect of employment in overseas locations post-
study is a strong desire. The concept of employability has infiltrated the literature, but little is …