Scaffolding literacies across the Bachelor of Education program: an argument for a course‐wide approach

Autor: Linda Devereux, Kate Wilson
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. 36:121-134
ISSN: 1469-2945
1359-866X
DOI: 10.1080/13598660801971633
Popis: Contemporary teacher educators often find themselves teaching large numbers of students from increasingly diverse backgrounds an expanded curriculum in a university environment characterised by cost‐cutting and a climate of “user pays”. Ensuring that students graduate with sufficiently well‐developed literacy skills to equip them to prepare future generations for the complex literacy requirements of contemporary society can be challenging. Informed by data from a longitudinal, qualitative study of 10 students' literacy development across the four years of a Bachelor of Education course, we propose a range of strategies that can be used to develop effective literacy practices. Through careful mapping of the assessment requirements over a four year degree, and by setting tasks which require students to engage with complex reading material and which offer a high degree of challenge coupled with adequate support, staff can assist students to develop the range of literacy practices required for success at univ...
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