Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Embodied teaching -- Introduction -- Educational semiotics -- Teachers and teaching -- Pedagogic discourse -- Social semiotics lens on teaching and learning -- Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SFMDA) -- From embodied teaching to designing learning -- References -- 2 Multimodal pedagogic discourse -- Discourses in the classroom -- Curriculum genre theory -- Lesson microgenres -- Analysis of two lessons -- Lesson initiation -- Lesson progress -- Lesson diversion -- Lesson closure -- Visual analysis of lesson microgenres -- Designing learning with lesson microgenres -- References -- 3 Spatial pedagogy -- Semiotics of space -- A pedagogy of space -- Spaces in the classroom -- Authoritative Space -- Supervisory Space -- Interactional Space -- Personal Space -- A study on the spatial pedagogy of two teachers -- Coding and visualisation -- Analysis of the teachers' positioning -- Analysis of the teachers' movement -- Discussion on the teachers' spatial pedagogy -- Applications of spatial pedagogy -- Space exploration -- References -- 4 Pedagogic gestures -- Performing teaching -- Gesture studies -- Gestures in the classroom -- A systemic functional approach to gesture -- A typology of gesture -- A diachronic view on gesture -- Metafunctional meanings in gesture -- The forms of gesture -- The functions of gesture -- Ideational meanings in performative gestures -- Ideational meanings in Communicative Gestures (speech independent or speech correspondent) -- Ideational meanings in Communicative Gestures (speech dependent) -- Interpersonal meanings in gestures -- Textual meanings in gestures -- Towards a description of pedagogic gestures -- References -- 5 Semiotic technologies.

Semiotic technologies for learning -- Popular digital semiotic technologies -- Value of PowerPoint -- Cost in PowerPoint -- Making meaning with PowerPoint -- New digital semiotic technologies -- Value of WiRead -- Cost in WiRead -- Making meaning with WiRead -- Personal computing devices in the classroom -- Artificial intelligence in the classroom -- Educational apps in the classroom -- Traditional semiotic technologies -- Representing knowledge with the whiteboard -- Enacting pedagogic relations with the whiteboard -- Organising learning with the whiteboard -- Designing learning with semiotic technologies -- References -- 6 Multimodal classroom orchestration -- Orchestrating teaching and learning -- Intersemiosis -- Intersemiosis in the classroom -- Contextualising relations -- The pedagogies of Lee and Mei -- Lesson microgenres analysis -- Spatial analysis -- Linguistic analysis -- Gesture analysis -- Semiotic technologies -- Semiotic cohesion -- Structured informality -- References -- 7 Designing learning -- Changing learners -- Defining learning -- Teachers as designers of learning -- Designing learning with embodied teaching -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

This book discusses on how teachers can use corporeal resources and (digital) tools to design learning experiences for their students. It advances the argument that the study of the teacher's use of language, gestures, positioning and movement in the classroom from a multimodal perspective can be productive.

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