Materiality and Mediality of Textbooks

Macgilchrist, Felicitas

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-53142-1_12

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“…The finding occurs in a bilingual curriculum where stories are the teaching materials and storytelling is the teaching approach. Macgilchrist (2018) suggested a highlight of focusing on the content and information loaded in the teaching and learning materials to how to mediate them. Therefore, with the mediation of picture books, specific curriculum objectives can guide teachers in adapting teaching materials for young learners.…”

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Understanding the Dynamics of Materials Adaptation in An English-Chinese Bilingual Storytelling Curriculum for First Graders

Wang,

Saihong,

Sonsupap

2024

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This cross-sectional study examined materials adaptation within an English-Chinese bilingual storytelling curriculum for first graders to identify the potential factors influencing adaptation choice. It delved into the relationship between curriculum objectives, perceptions of picture books, and the use of tense and narrative. A survey (N=352) gathered demographic data of English teachers from China, and the data was analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS) structural equation modeling. Findings illuminate how teachers’ perception of picture books fully mediate the interplay between bilingual storytelling curriculum objectives and teachers’ narrative in a picture book adaptation. Analyzing the results by narrative theory, it found that the essence of storytelling and narrative is making meanings; stories play a leading role in the curriculum for first graders to develop their bilingual narrative through sharing, reading, and telling stories. Consequently, teachers’ understanding of picture books’ possibilities as teaching materials, benefits for fostering students’ bilingual development, and perception of the intertextuality of illustration and words can significantly facilitate teachers’ narrative in a picture book adaptation. This study contributes by elucidating the mediating role of picture books, emphasizing the importance of linking curriculum objectives with teaching materials adaptation in practice. Furthermore, longitudinal research is to overcome the limitations of this cross-sectional correlation analysis.

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Understanding the Dynamics of Materials Adaptation in An English-Chinese Bilingual Storytelling Curriculum for First Graders

Wang,

Saihong,

Sonsupap

2024

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“…As such, the material properties of the resources that enable different types of action (i.e. the affordances) must be considered when evaluating the qualities of learning materials (Macgilchrist, 2018). This is particularly true of digital learning materials with virtual affordances, since they are used on laptop computers, tablets and smartphones that all differ radically in terms of their materiality and physical affordances from traditional learning materials such as books, paper and pencils.…”

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Utilizing the affordances of digital learning materials

Berthelsen¹,

Tannert²

2020

L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature

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Due to the all-pervasive digital transformation of education, learning materials have developed considerably in terms of their form, function and content over recent decades. This development from print-based to digital formats carries with it a corresponding transformation of materiality that may not be apparent, yet plays an important role in shaping contemporary learning environments. Obviously, this transformation is of relevance for the design of learning materials and has implications for how we assess and study digital learning materials. However, the process of designing learning materials with a view to utilizing the many possibilities of contemporary digital technologies is no trivial task. Consequently, a focal point in the study of learning materials must concern the utilization of these new possibilities. For that purpose, we develop a framework for analyzing digital learning materials based on the notion of affordance. We use this framework to study how six courses from a widely used digital form of Danish L1 learning material integrate different kinds of affordances into their learning designs. Based on the results of our analysis, we also discuss the implications of this material transformation.

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Education and biopolitics: deconstructing authority in Polish textbooks

Zwierżdżyński

2024

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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Materiality and Mediality of Textbooks

Cited by 3 publications

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Understanding the Dynamics of Materials Adaptation in An English-Chinese Bilingual Storytelling Curriculum for First Graders

Understanding the Dynamics of Materials Adaptation in An English-Chinese Bilingual Storytelling Curriculum for First Graders

Utilizing the affordances of digital learning materials

Education and biopolitics: deconstructing authority in Polish textbooks

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