309299 (v.1) Ed 477 - Issues in Literacy Teaching and Learning

Area:

Department of Education

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

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Lecture:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Explores current issues and influences in the social construction of literacy in and out of schools. The course has two sections. In the first section there will be a focus on the values, beliefs, and world views that underpin literacy and the institutional rituals and practices that serve or marginalise particular social or cultural groups in schools. Issues such as the differences between socially constructed literacy practices valued by schools and those practices used by children from diverse backgrounds will be described, analysed and compared and their impact on the classroom and learning will be investigated. The second section will examine the development of designs for learning based on multi-literary frameworks as a response to changes in technology, work, visual communication, diversity and social mobility.

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Field of Education:

070103 Teacher Education: Primary

Funding Cluster:

11 - Education

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External