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This paper presents an investigation that compares and analyzes the interactions of three groups of pre-and-primary school children with three different storytelling systems. We identify emerging patterns through which they engaged in what we refer to as narrative computational thinking. The latter describes broadened aspects of narrative literacy practices that are linked to computational thinking. By applying...
Faculty professional development is a multifaceted process involving various models of continuing education; it benefits from a combination of practices that foster professional autonomy and transformative learning. Formal programmes typically include structured workshops and courses, while their impact depends on their relevance to faculty teaching contexts. However, informal activities, such as peer conversat...
This article aims to add to the understanding of the challenges involved in designing digital texts to promote multiliteracies pedagogy. A multiliteracies approach calls for multimodal meaning-making and cultural diversity to be integrated into new school curriculum content, and accordingly, we analyse an interactive children’s story app, named Mobeybou in Brazil. The research question addressed was: what can w...
The worldwide outbreak of Covid-19 epidemic has been profusely covered by the mass media in 2020. This research focuses on the metaphorical content of cartoons from prominent Spanish and Brazilian newspapers published online in March and April 2020. In these satirical drawings the virus is portrayed through two main modes of representation: i) pictorial and ii) verbal. The conceptual metaphors conveyed in each ...
Este artigo busca, por meio de uma revisão teórica, investigar quais são as contribuições relevantes dos estudos desenvolvidos por Grice (1975 [1967]) para o estudo da metáfora e analisar, desta forma, como as formulações desse filósofo inglês podem enriquecer as reflexões sobre esse fenômeno da linguagem. Para estabelecer essas contribuições, é feita uma breve revisão dos estudos anteriores a Grice envolvendo ...