ABSTRACT
Communication modalities are central to world-to-mind and mind-to-world relations. Examples of these modalities are numbers, words, sounds, images, gestures and symbols. We communicate through – by using – numeric, linguistic, musical, pictorial, gestural and symbolic forms of representation, or combinations of them. In a colonial and traditional curriculum and pedagogy, with its school subjects, subject-didactics and transmissive forms of pedagogy, communication modalities feature in English, modern languages, extinct languages, reading, writing and the like.
