Ladislaus M. Semali Book order

The exploration of poverty reveals its complex nature and the various dimensions that contribute to its persistence. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding these facets to effectively address and reduce poverty. By examining the implications of poverty reduction, it highlights the necessity of informed strategies and policies that can lead to meaningful change in affected communities.

Transmediation in the Classroom proposes semiotics-based frameworks that are built on the assumption that humans manipulate sign systems or codes that are meaningful to them so as to make sense of any human experience. The tensions often encountered in reading classrooms by adolescent readers – between what is real and fantasy, artifact and image, object and perception – are made manifest in this book, and the ways in which individuals shape, or are shaped by, sign and symbol systems or program elements that surround their learning and communicating environments are systematically explored. The contributors promote the generative power of transmediation of multiple sign systems, while challenging the privileged position of the language teaching methods still prevalent in some United States public schools.