Lilian Pozzer

Education

  • SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-2010). Multimodal Analyses of Language, Identity, and Culture in Students’ and Teacher’s Interactions in Multicultural Science Classrooms. Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. 
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Education (2007). “Look at What I Am Saying”: Multimodal Science Teaching. Curriculum & Instruction, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. 
  • Master of Arts in Curriculum & Instruction (2004). Making Sense of Photographs in Science Textbooks and Lectures. Curriculum & Instruction, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. 
  • Full Licentiateship in Biological Sciences (2000). UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. 

Bio

  • Dr. Lilian Pozzer has extensive experience with multimodal microanalysis of interaction and communication in science classrooms, including multimodal analysis of gesture-speech integration, analysis of visual representations (inscriptions) in science teaching and learning, Discourse Analysis and Social Semiotics.  Lilian is also interested in sociocultural studies in Science Education and the re-thinking, restructuring and re-enactment of inter- and intra-species relations as these apply to teaching, learning and research in Science Education for social and environmental change. 

Areas of Specialization

  • Science teaching
  • Secondary biology teaching
  • Gestures studies
  • Multimodality
  • Classroom interaction
  • Sociocultural studies
  • Graphicacy and scientific literacy

Research Interests

  • Science education
  • Secondary science teaching
  • Biology teaching
  • Classroom interaction
  • Communication
  • Gestures and inscriptions