Course overview
To critically engage practicing educators in examining theories of literacy with a focus on learner-text interactions and their application to contemporary teaching across sites and contexts.
Course learning outcomes
- Engage with relevant theories which articulate the role of texts in literacy learning and teaching
- Analyse the impact of diverse social and cultural contexts on text conventions, production methods and skill acquisition
- Acquire skills in text analysis and apply these to texts drawn from a range of contexts
- Consider how the literacy teaching program might address challenges to developing text decoding, analysis and production skill
- Critically analyse current professional contexts in terms of their support for practitioners and learners in building textual repertoires