This group integrates researchers from different universities and different disciplines that share a common objective: to develop investigations that aim to provide 21st Century students with an education that contributes to their personal, intercultural and social training. For this purpose, we combine educational research with educational innovation to study the pedagogical value of the use and impact of multiliteracies and multimodal resources in the classroom. Our approach is based on several transversal disciplines related primarily to the humanities, art, the teaching of foreign languages and the new technologies for learning.

 

The goal of Lit(T)erart is to deepen in the contribution of these areas, fundamentally in teacher training and in the elaboration of curricular proposals that foster the cognitive, conceptual, sociocultural and aesthetic dimensions, as well as  to focus on the design of an evaluation system based on the creation of rubrics that show student progress and the validity of the proposed methodology. Far from the traditional pedagogical schemes and in line with the guidelines of the European Higher Education Area, we propose to build a didactic instruction that allows establishing a continuum between the way in which preservice teachers are educated and the way in which they subsequently implement their teaching practice in Primary and Secondary schools.  Therefore, taking into account that the pedagogy of multiliteracies ceases to consider language as an exclusive form for the construction of meanings and incorporates other modes of representation that favor in turn other ways of creating and expressing ideas, we consider it essential that the educational system facilitate analytical content, strategies and procedures so that students can understand, interpret and discuss the various multimodal discourses they encounter in their daily lives. In this regard, research on the learning process itself is therefore a central aspect that will be given special attention in order to achieve the pedagogical optimization of teachers and students.