Teaching Literacies in Diverse Contexts

Edited by Sinéad Harmey, Bobbie Kabuto

Publication date:

24 April 2023

Publisher

UCL Press

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781800080058

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Literacy education can take place in many locations and periods across the lifespan. Literacy educators require flexibility and a deep toolbox to meet their students’ diverse needs, regardless of whether they work in traditional school and college settings or in other environments with varied populations. Teaching Literacy in Diverse Contexts shows how practical experiences can be used in creative ways to support educator development for teaching literacy in a global context.

Mentorship between a developing literacy
educator and an experienced teacher educator is central to the book, and to the
practical experiences in training or professional development that it focuses
on. Chapters share the creative solutions discovered during mentorship that supported
developing literacy educators to teach with authenticity in a number of
contexts, including the adult learning sector, a rural community in Africa and alongside
parents of very sick children. The authors demonstrate how this can be done in
a sensitive and culturally relevant manner by parents, volunteers and teachers
with varying degrees of experience in both formal and informal spaces.
Together, the chapters build a crucial resource for preparing a broad range of
literacy educators to teach literacy in many contexts where policy on how best
to teach reading and writing to diverse student bodies ebbs and flows.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION - Towards diverse clinical practices within literacy professional preparation programmes, Sinéad Harmey and Bobbie Kabuto

SECTION 1: Strategies for supporting literacy educators

Introduction to Section 1

1 Culturally relevant, culturally sustaining, and antiracist practices through an embedded literacy methods course, Eliza Braden, Michele Myers, Catherine Compton-Lilly

2 Supporting adult literacy learners: reviewing and reframing the place for phonics in the adult learning sector, Sinéad Harmey and Gemma Moss

3 Assessing phonological awareness in early childhood: scaffolding pre-service teachers’ play-based authentic assessments in field placements, Sara Michael-Luna and b Jody Silvester

4 Using video analysis to support the professional knowledge of literacy professionals, Sinéad Harmey and Bobbie Kabuto

5 Teacher dialogue in literacy continuing professional development: Developing reflective inquiry into practice, Helen Morris

SECTION 2: Teaching literacies in diverse settings with diverse populations

Introduction to Section 2

6 On the other side of pedagogy: Teaching and learning with South African rural elementary teachers, Peggy Albers and Amy Seely Flint

7 Designing effective summer literacy learning programmes in Malta, Sue Bodman

8 A literacy coaching collaborative: Preparing community responsive coaches, Bobbie Kabuto, Christopher Wagner, Deepa S. Vasudevan

9 Literacy support for children with cancer: Parents as partners in a non-traditional learning environment, Sabina Bragg

10 Teaching-Free literacy: Working with teenagers and young adults, Tricia Millar, Stefanie Boyle, Laney Muir

SECTION 3: Supporting literacy educators from a distance

Introduction to Section 3

11 Practice-based learning through online teacher inquiry: Connecting literacy teachers in specialised and isolated locations, Christopher Wagner

12 How in the world will we teach online? Re-envisioning literacy practicums for distance education, Kathleen Olmstead, Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko, Logan Rath

13 Virtual literacy coaching: moving beyond the traditional context, Celeste C. Bates and Meghan J. Malloy