Frameworks for Understanding Literacy, Teaching & Learning

Catalog description

Designed as a collaborative inquiry, this module will provide a range of contexts for exploring the nature and purposes of literacy education in the 21st century. Individually and collectively, we will unpack the “conceptual frameworks” ---the images, practices, assumptions, and beliefs—that structure our understanding of what it means to teach and learn literacy in various settings. We will “read” critically the current literature, classroom and school practices, as well as the public/policy discourse about literacy. From our reading, writing and talking, we hope to develop richer and more compelling understandings of what counts as literacy teaching and learning in order to pursue important issues about leadership for literacy learning. Our process will entail investigation into your literacy history/herstory, various educational settings, and current policies related to literacy education - with an emphasis on considering questions that are most pertinent to your current workplace and career aspirations.