ED5832 - Early Literacy Teaching and Learning

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	National Priority Band
Administered by:

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 Outcomes

• consider and evaluate a range of approaches in early literacy education;
• construct a principle account of appropriate literacy experiences for specific groups of young children in an early educational setting;
• critically appraise ones own beliefs and practices in early literacy education;
• explore the nature of literacy as a social construct;
• investigate patterns of significance in young childrens prior-to-school and school experiences with literacy.

Availabilities
, Study Period 2
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coord/Lect:	edcjs.
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).
, , Study Period 38
Census Date 05-May-2006
Face to face teaching 07-May-2005 to 01-Jul-2005
Coord/Lect:	edgew.
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.