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Digitization has had a transformative impact on museum practices in recent years, including the work with exhibitions (cf. Arvantis & Zuanni, 2021). Digital media make it possible for more people to take part in cultural heritage, by making available objects and remains of a sensitive nature that could not otherwise be shown publicly. It opens up new forms of communication that can make it possible for groups of visitors with different needs to learn about the past (cf. Galani & Kidd, 2020). New questions can potentially be asked, when cultural heritage is made digital. In this presentation we introduce an on-going research project on digital materialities in museum exhibitions. The aim of the project is to produce knowledge about the effects of digitization in relation to the exhibition medium and to visitors’ meaning-making. It does so by investigating how digital technologies are employed and how specific applications may contribute to learning in a selection of museums, such as Vrak – The Museum of Wrecks and The Vasa Museum. Focusing on materiality, the project seeks to understand the affordances for meaning-making of digital media in relation to the epistemological commitments of modes, media and the material expression (cf. Bezemer & Kress, 2016; Lindstrand, 2022). The presentation will include examples from a series of case studies from different museums that are part of Swedish National Maritime and Transport Museums. We will share some preliminary findings. The project is funded by The Swedish National Heritage Board and will run for three years, 2023-2025. The project aims to contribute to research by bringing the fields of digital humanities and education together, by investigating how analogue and digital technologies intersect when representing cultural-historical objects, and how specific applications create conditions (and perhaps even limitations) for learning and meaning making.

This chapter introduces the notion of designs in learning, which focuses on aspects regarding how learners (either individually or collectively) negotiate, make choices, and design their learning and representation of a phenomenon and of a knowledge area. Designs in learning can thus be seen as a way to approach issues regarding learners’ agency and performativity in learning contexts of various kinds. The chapter further contextualizes this aspect of learning by introducing the idea of rhizomatic webs as a metaphor for learning. A condition for being able to grasp learning as a performative act and the rhizomatic character of meaning-making is an openness in terms of what is recognized as valid representations of knowledge. We argue for the importance of recognizing a multitude of meaningful expressions in learning, introduced here as a capacity to embrace multimodal knowledge representations. The ideas presented in the chapter are exemplified with some glimpses of a collaborative process of filmmaking in a school context. In order to show how meaning-making evolves in the work to make representations in film, the chapter also introduces the notions of epistemological commitments of modes, transformation, and transduction.

In this chapter, the focus is on knowledge representations in different sites of learning. We will give some examples of formal, semi-formal, and non-formal institutional framings, as well as of choices of representational resources—both in terms of designs for learning and play, and designs in learning. The knowledge area is the Middle Ages, a period which reappears in books, music, films, and games in late-modern contexts. This chapter is thereby also an example of learning outside and inside schools, and of how different institutional logics and choices of material resources affect which type of knowledge that is valued, and what is seen as signs of learning.

In the modern era during the twentieth century, much has been written about teaching and learning. However, much of this seems obsolete in our contemporary hybrid society. Interaction design focuses on theory-informed, collaborative work between researchers and the users, as in the example of museums below or, as in a school context, between teachers and learners. Learning Design Sequences is a theoretical map for the purpose of analyzing significant incidents in learning process, in a process of meaning-making. The chivalrous reward chart is designed as a printable sheet presenting the 12 “rules” of the chivalrous code multimodally, in writing and images. Pelf was navigating through space making selections from the modes and media available in the exhibition, in a process of meaning-making. Language, mathematic symbols and musical notation are examples of sign systems often regarded as objective knowledge representations enabling us to communicate our understanding of specific aspects of the world.

Ingress: 23 forskare inom it- och utbildningsområdet: Regeringens utredare borde inte lyfta fram läsning på skärm som något negativt. Forskning ­visar att både tryckta och digitala läromedel behövs i skolan., DN Debatt.

Vänbok till Staffan Selander. Språk på svenska och engelska.

Contemporary teaching and learning imply that pupils encounter curricular content in the form of multimodal representations such as films, museum visits, power point presentations, role play and digital games etc. Verbal language is no more the only mode for knowledge representation and meaning-making. This means a new demand for teaching (and assessment), since the school tradition is heavily based on verbal language and assessments of verbal representations. In this article, we will present an analysis of the use of resources and different media in classroom work about the Middle Ages, and discuss the need for the development of assessment tools.

This article poses questions regarding learning and representation in relation to young children's popular culture. Focusing on gender, the article builds on multimodal, social semiotic analyses of two different media texts related to a specific brand and shows how gender and gender differences are represented multimodally in separate media contexts and in the interplay between different media. The results show that most of the semiotic resources employed in the different texts contribute in congruent ways to the representation of girls as either different from or inferior to boys. At the same time, however, excerpts from an encounter with a young girl who engages with characters from the brand in her role play are used as an example of how children actively make meaning and find strategies that subvert the repressive ideologies manifested in their everyday popular culture.

Goal-oriented learning seems to be a ubiquitous demand for almost all kind of play activities today. This demand, the article argues, is related to a specific neo-liberal discourse about the “superchild”. The article shows how this discourse is articulated multimodally in a number of media texts aimed at young children based around a trans-medial brand; Mike the Knight.

This article poses questions regarding learning and representation in relation to young children's popular culture. Focusing on gender, the article builds on multimodal, social semiotic analyses of two different media texts related to a specific brand and shows how gender and gender differences are represented multimodally in separate media contexts and in the interplay between different media. The results show that most of the semiotic resources employed in the different texts contribute in congruent ways to the representation of girls as either different from or inferior to boys. At the same time, however, excerpts from an encounter with a young girl who engages with characters from the brand in her role play are used as an example of how children actively make meaning and find strategies that subvert the repressive ideologies manifested in their everyday popular culture.

Based on the results from a Swedish research project, this paper investigates young children's meaning-making in relation to moving images in a preschool context. The specific focus of the paper is to look at if – and how – two year-old children can be said to make meaning during the screening of a series of short animated films at their preschools. What kind of meanings are made and how are they communicated by the children? How do the films become resources for childrens meaning making and to what extent can social interaction with peers and preschool teachers be said to influence childrens meaning making during the screening of the films? The results presented are based on analyses of both interaction in front of the TV screen and of the animated films. The theoretical framework is based on a social semiotic (Hodge & Kress, 1988; Kress, 2003; van Leeuwen, 2005) and multimodal (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2001; Jewitt, 2009) approach, which implies a view of communication and representation as a social process of signmaking. Both theories are united in a common interest in understanding how people communicate and make meanings with a wide range of resources, or modes. Semiotic resources are used both to produce and interpret texts, in the same way as signs are made both externally and internally. The analyses of both interaction and of the animated films were guided by the theoretical assumptiom that all texts simultaneously construct different types of meanings through three metafunctions (Jewitt & Oyama, 2001; Iedema, 2001; van Leeuwen, 2005). They represent some aspect of the world (the ideational metafunction); represent and construct relations between represented and interactive participants (the interpersonal metafunction); and are organised as coherent texts (the textual metafunction). Meanings are made through the use of various modes in relation to these different aspects. The project included studies at eight preschools spread over three Swedish mun

Populärvetenskaplig föreläsning vid konferensen Konstarter i Pedagogiken - Art in Education, Edsbyn 7-8 januari 2013.

Publik föreläsning inom Folkteaterns föreläsningsserie på temat "Hur man blir en människa". Föreläsningen ägde rum i samband med en öppen repetition i februari 2013.

Hur ser vi på barns lärande? Vad säger deras nyfikenhet oss? Och hur bekräftar vi den kunskap de själva kommit fram till?Hur kan vi tolka barns uttryck så att de hjälper oss förstå hur vi ska vägleda dem i deras spontana sökande efter kunskap? De konkreta exemplen i Design för lärande i förskolan är inriktade på språk och kommunikation, naturvetenskap och matematik. Genom inspirerande analyser som är kopplade till exemplen, ger boken en inblick i allt det lärande som ständigt pågår i barns vardag.För att ta vara på de oändliga möjligheterna som finns i förskolan, behöver vi förstå hur lärande går till och hur det kommer till yttryck. På samma sätt måste vi uppmärksamma vår egen roll i barnens lärande - hur interaktion med barnen, vårt utformande av resurser, miljöer och aktiviteter får betydelse för barnens möjligheter att engagera sig, lära och förstå.Design för lärande i förskolan vänder sig till blivande och verksamma förskollärare och förskolechefer.

This paper discusses the outline and implications of a recently initiated research project, ”REMAKE: Representations, resources and meaning-making. The Middle Ages as a knowledge domain in different learning environments”, funded by the Swedish research council. The aim of the project is to study how – and with what social and epistemological consequences – a knowledge domain is realized in different learning environments. Here, we look at how the subject of history, and more specifically “the Middle Ages”, is realized in pre-school, compulsory school and upper secondary school contexts. Based on a design-theoretic, multimodal perspective on learning and communication (Rostvall & Selander, 2008; Selander & Kress, 2010), the project takes a starting point in the assumption that a given knowledge domain is realized in different ways in different learning environments, as a result of a complex interaction of selections, representations and actions by the participants involved. There is not a given core or consensus of what this domain is or what parts or aspects the subject area should encompass. The project will put an emphasis on the resources used by teachers and learners in their work to design and re-design the subject content, and on how specific designs for learning shape the possibilities for how one can learn and engage with a certain knowledge domain. The resources brought into play will be analysed in terms of how they are used, what they add to the representation of the historical epoch in focus, and how they affect the learners’ possibilities to make meaning. By means of classroom observations, where all work around the Middle Ages will be documented in a selection of groups and classes, the project will investigate a) teachers didactic design; b) different representations of the Middle Ages and c) how children/pupils interpret, transform and design their conception of the knowledge domain. Doing this, we deal with questions of agency, cultures of, REMAKE

Anknytningsteorin har sedan länge varit fundamental för utvecklingspsykologin och beskriver hur ett barn har en medfödd förmåga att knyta an till sina vårdnadshavare för närhet och skydd. På senare tid har teorin om kognitiva script visat sig användbar i jakten på att förstå hur individers mentala representationer gestaltar sig. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka förekomsten och relationen mellan föräldrar och deras förpubertala barns förekomst av ”trygg-bas script” som det uttrycker sig i skapandet av berättelser med anknytningsrelaterade teman. I studien deltog 78 personer indelade i 26 familjer. Resultatet var mångfasetterat och en tendens att tryggt anknutna föräldrar får tryggt anknutna barn gestaltade sig. Vidare framkom ett genusspecifikt mönster där ett starkare samband fanns mellan föräldrars och döttrars trygg-bas script, jämfört med föräldrar och söners trygg-bas script. Slutsatserna som dras är att sambanden mellan mammor, pappor och barns trygg-bas script är komplexa och beror på ett stort antal faktorer och omständigheter men de förefaller ändå vara kompatibla med övrig forskning på fältet.

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This chapter examines youth media from a Scandinavian perspective, based on the results of a recent study about learning paths among young filmmakers in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. We deal specifically with how the film medium as a knowledge domain, or a field of practice, is represented through the discourses of young Scandinavian filmmakers. The chapter introduces three filmmakers and their submitted films. The analysis – which uses a social semiotic approach to communication and meaning making – is focused on their enclosed descriptions of a scene they felt satisfied with and their motivations for highlighting that specific scene. The aspects of the scene they point out are seen as representations of the film medium as a knowledge domain, based on certain assumptions about how the medium works and what can be regarded as marks of quality within the different aspects of filmmaking they focus on. As a background, a Scandinavian context for youth filmmaking is presented briefly.

Interview with professor Carey Jewitt who is a nodal point in the international web of researchers interested in issues around multimodality and social semiotics.

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This paper presents results from a Swedish research project about filmmaking as a site for transformative processes (Lindstrand, 2006; 2009). The scope of the paper is twofold, as it both presents results regarding multimodal learning in the production of moving images and aims at contributing more generally to the development of multimodal, design oriented approaches to the analysis of learning. The text is anchored in examples from collaborative filmmaking processes which serve as a background for elaborating on questions of various kinds: How can learning be grasped analytically and methodologically in processes of multimodal semiotic production? What is learnt and what characterizes the learning process in this type of semiotic work? How – and why – does the multimodal nature of these endeavours contribute to the learning process? Filmmaking consists of a number of processes characterized by different objectives and the production of different kinds of texts, within different genres, with different tools, in different media and different modes. All of these differences contribute to changes – related to issues of transformation and transduction – in the overall process and present the filmmakers with new challenges, new perspectives and new sets of meaning potentials. The paper brings attention to how the filmmakers reflect upon various aspects of the films during their work, and shows how they gradually become aware of aspects of their films that relate to the ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunctions of texts. Their widened attention affects the process itself, since it guides them towards new choices. A cyclic motion is thereby implied, since the new choices will lead to new reflections and so on. The presented results are summed up in the form of an additional version of the Learning Design Sequence model presented by Staffan Selander (2008), aimed at mapping learning processes in creative multimodal text production and emphasizing the role of desi

Rapport från projekt kring lärande med samtidskonst i skolmiljö., SKISS