EDU8416 Investigating Literacy Practices in Educational Contexts (FOEDU)

Units 1.0 (Education not elsewhere classi) Band 5

Synopsis

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to develop and apply understandings about literacy as social practice to educational contexts. Students will examine literacy practices, discourses and pedagogical practices, and the way that literacy learners are socially and discursively constructed. They will compare educational literacy practices with the literacy practices of other social settings and consider the potential for literacy learning in a range of contexts. Students will develop skills to analyse their own teaching practices and will consider how educational practices might change to optimise literacy learning.