ED5832:04
Early Literacy Teaching and Learning
Townsville
Flexible delivery nationally and internationally. First semester.
Available to Postgraduate Certificate, BEd (Professional Development) and Master of Education students.
The substantive content of this subject will be theories of literacy; the pedagogics associated with the teaching and learning of various literacies in prior-to-school and school contexts and debates concerning the significance of kinds and levels of literacy learning in early childhood education. Students will be involved in examining a diverse range of views regarding literacy and literacy education and in constructing a coherent conceptual and pedagogic basis for their own practice as literacy educators in prior-to-school and early school contexts. Students will be asked to critique a number of early literacy programs and/or approaches, especially within the area of early reading instruction.
Learning Objectives:
- explore the nature of literacy as a social construct;
- investigate patterns of significance in young children’s prior-to-school and school experiences with literacy;
- consider and evaluate a range of approaches in early literacy education;
- critically appraise one’s own beliefs and practices in early literacy education;
- construct a principle account of appropriate literacy experiences for specific groups of young children in an early educational setting.
Assessment by essay and presentation (50%); curriculum plan/program (50%).