Literacy Teaching and Learning MOOC’s Updates

  • Section 2c: Literacies for Contemporary Community Life

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    The nature of the literacies used in everyday community life has also changed dramatically since the classical literacy teaching of the nineteeth and twentieth century school. For one thing, whereas we were mostly...More

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  • Section 7: Critical Literacy Pedagogy

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    Critical pedagogies generally acknowledge that literacies are in the plural. They recognise the many voices learners bring to the classroom,...More

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  • Section 6: Functional Literacy Pedagogy

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    Functional approaches to literacy focus on students learning to read and compose the kinds of texts that enable them to succeed at school and...More

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  • Section 5: Authentic Literacy Pedagogy

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    Authentic pedagogies were first formulated as a direct counterpoint to didactic pedagogies. They became well known and influential from the b...More

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  • Section 4: Didactic Literacy Pedagogy

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    Didactic literacy pedagogy was the founding approach to reading and writing from the introduction of mass, compulsory, institutionalised educ...More

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  • Section 3b: Literacies Pedagogy in Theory

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    This is the theory of Literacies Pedagogy:

    Literacies Pedagogy: The 'Knowledge Processes'
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  • Section 3a: Literacies Pedagogy in Action

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    To see some rich examples of literacies pedagogy, go to the 'Literacies Pedagogy in Practice' sectionof our supporting materials website. While you're looking through these lea...More

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  • Section 2b: Literacies for Citizenship

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    In the era of strong nation states and nationalist ideologies, literacy played a role in creating an homogeneous citizenry. When it came to learner differences (culture, language, dialect, and the like), the agend...More

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  • Section 2a: Literacies for Work

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    In this section of the Literacies learning module, we are going to examine the purposes of literacies. First: literacies for work. In the industrial economies of the twentieth century, most jobs were low skilled,...More

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  • Section 1d: The Impact of New Media on Literacies

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    We live in a time of profound change in the ways in which humans make meaning. Within just a few generations we have seen the rise of new, digital media which are at once deeply multimodal, socially interconnected...More

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