ED5832:04
Early Literacy Teaching and Learning
External
HECS Band 1
External nationally and internationally. Semester 1 and 2.
Available to Postgraduate Certificate, BEd (Professional Development) and Master of Education students.
Staff: Ms G Shopen.
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 reflective exercise (Ungraded); essay (50%); curriculum plan/program (50%).