Popular Pedagogy: Multimodal Environments for the Teaching and Learning of Literature in the Malaysian Tertiary World
Introduction
Consists of and introduction to key issues and terms crucial to literary studies.
How to teach a course in literary reading approaches and ways to achieve set course objectives.
The latter can e achieved through a communicative platform
Communicating Theory
Undergo course in theoretical reading.
Introduce useful methods
Course focus on generating an awareness of the various reading approaches
Ensure learning takes place through real communication between teacher and student
Focus on things visual and vivid.
Communicational ensemble-- Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen
Literacy is generated via multimodal means
Displays a combination of the visual, textual and auditory
Lies in engendering of design, transformation and meaning making.
Opens up platform for learning and the acquiring of literacies.
Multimodality
Utilisation of different modes of texts and contexts for learning
Attendant results are the advancement of learning across different spaces.
Modes create in turn portals for the acquiring of multiple literacy skills
The key references are made to the range that learners are presented with
Regards to notions of design, potential and communicability.
Significance of incorporating visual modes to mediate the reading and understanding of literary texts.
The ensuing discussions are aspects and engendered through the use of popular connections to develop understanding of critical approaches in the literature classroom.
Popular Pedagogy and the Teaching and Learning of Literature
Conclusion
Develop a sense of the link between an abstract concept from the particular theory and manifestations.
The kind of mood of learning created.
The teacher could really bear witness to the change in the atmosphere in the first class.
Demonstrate that the popular connections that were made to bridge teaching and learning possibilities enabled the provision of new avenues for students.
Created spaces foe the shifting of traditional approaches that heavily dominated by monomodality and facilitate the emergence of a new pedagogical paradigm.
Aim course
Introduce students to a number of critical theories.
Guide them towards comprehensively applying theories in their analysis of literary texts.
Theoretical frameworks of Formaism, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Marxism and Postcolonialism.
The use of visual media to reinforce the terms and concepts.
To engage and sustain the interest of the students while simultaneously instilling the awareness of the fundamental aspects.
Transaction between teacher and students.
Able to facilitate the infusion of meaning and understanding of literary items.
Rethink established curricula and teaching strategies to meet the challenge of empowering individuals.
Provide inroads into the assessments.
Choosing, correlation between theory and outlines the gradual introduction.
Using Powerpoint
Teacher centred
Main objectives impart the outline of the course.
Small discussion and informal presentation=Multimodality evident
Reading Approach.
Combination of contemporary movies series
Accompanied by stills of carious characters and scenes Harry Potter
Read short story and analyse