Education expert Professor Len Unsworth will explore the changes to the teaching of English that will come into play with new Australian National Curriculum for English at an upcoming lecture in Melbourne.

 

The new national English curriculum places importance on not just how to read and write words, but also the interpretation and composition of narratives using still and moving images. This addition to the curriculum has been influenced by our increasing exposure to mass media and semiology.

 

Professor Unsworth will discuss the implications for teachers and explore the concepts by comparing Shaun Tan’s picture book, The Lost Thing with the 2011 Oscar-winning animated movie.

 

Professor Unsworth has been a chief investigator on five Australian Research Council funded projects since. His publications include Literacy learning and teaching (Macmillan, 1993), Researching Language in Schools and Communities (Continuum, 2000), Teaching Multiliteracies Across the Curriculum (Open University Press, 2001),Teaching children’s literature with Information and Communication Technologies (McGraw-Hill/Open University Press 2005), e-literature for Children (Routledge, 2006), New Literacies and the English Curriculum(Continuum, 2008) and Multimodal Semiotics (Continuum, 2008).

 

What: Changing point of view in picture books as animated films: A focus for narrative interpretation and composition pedagogy

When: November 29, from 5– 7pm

Where: ACU Melbourne, Mercy Lecture Theatre, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy VIC

RSVP: To Pamela Whitehead at Pamela.Whitehead@acu.edu.au or 03 9953 3354

Light refreshment will be served between 6 – 7

Parking available off Little Napier Street