Exploring Teachers' Multimodal Expression Through PhotoVoice

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: Semiotics in Education: Signs, Meanings, and Multimodality SIG Poster Session

Abstract

Pedagogy that centers on increased opportunities for expression through multiple ways or modes of meaning-making will lead to greater expressivity for all students. This paper describes a research study that examines how inclusive elementary teachers describe expressive opportunities for students with disabilities. Findings from this study suggest that photovoice research methodology, in which participants took photographs of and shared stories about their regular classroom practice with other participants, is a powerful strategy for the examination of teaching practice. The study’s design also forefronts the potential of multimodal expression as evidenced by teachers’ own expressions of learning and their descriptions of opportunities offered to students for expression of learning through multiple media and modalities.

Author

• Francesca Ciotoli, St. Thomas Aquinas College