This book outlines a framework for spatial pedagogy, exploring how the dynamics of multimodality work in the interaction of human bodies and classroom spaces in pedagogic practices. Wu extends Spatial Discourse Analysis to establish a framework for analyzing the multimodal nature of embodied practice in space.

The volume features four case studies from a range of tertiary classrooms and their material settings in Australian and Chinese higher education, each offering unique insights into teaching and learning practices and how such practices interface with movement, writing, rhythm, and blocking across different contexts. Taken together, the book provides a greater understanding of space in social life and multimodal communication as it plays out in the classroom, charting new directions for future research at the intersection of multimodality and higher education.

This volume will be of interest to students and researchers in multimodality, semiotics, educational research, and communication studies.

Xiaoqin Wu is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Communication at Southwest University, Advisory Editor of Visual Communication, and Principal Investigator of six research grants. She received her doctoral certificate from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her research interests include multimodal discourse analysis informed by Social Semiotics and Systemic-Functional Linguistics, with a specialization in spatial pedagogy, spatial nationalism, and transmedia representation of gender.