Learning from Animations in Science Education Innovating in Semiotic and Educational Research

Len Unsworth is Professor in English and Literacies Education in the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE), at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney, Australia. Len’s current research interests include systemic functional semiotic perspectives on multimodal and digital literacies in English and in curriculum area teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools. He is the lead researcher on an Australian Research Council funded project on 
Multiliteracies for Addressing Disadvantage in Senior High School Science
and has published in the 
International Journal of Science Education 
and in Research in Science Education with an extensive record of publication in leading journals in literacy and education as well book chapters and a number of books, including recently: 
Functional Grammatics: Reconceptualising Knowledge about Language and Image for School English
 with Mary Macken-Horarik, Kristina Love and Carmel Sandiford (Routledge, 2017);
 English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy: Interpreting and authoring digital multimedia narratives 
with Angela Thomas (Peter Lang Publishing 2014); and
 Reading Visual Narratives
 (Equinox, 2013) with Clare Painter and Jim Martin.