EDUC 240 - Multiple Perspectives on Literacy

Through a focus on critical literacy and literate activity, EDUC 240 examines teaching and learning from a variety of perspectives. EDUC 240 encourages individuals contemplating careers in education to reflect on issues of control, ownership, choice, and responsibility as they impact teachers and students, and school communities. We will study equity structures, the non-neutrality of texts, and instructional methods. We will delve into intersectionality and how it impacts learning, literacy development, the acquisition of language and learner participation. Through reading, writing, projects, and class discussions, participants will explore the ways language and literacy practices shape understanding of reality in classrooms and communities.

Credits 4

Compass Attributes
Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars