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Remixing My Life: The Multimodal Literacy Memoir Assignment and STEM
Author(s) -
Pytash Kristine E.,
Kist William,
Testa Elizabeth
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.633
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , memoir , literacy , pedagogy , mathematics education , psychology , literature , art , psychotherapist
The authors explore the experiences and multimodal compositions of a student at a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) high school who opted to take an elective course on multimodal autobiography. They document how her meaning making included her beliefs and perspectives about the world, as well as a finely developed aesthetic sense.