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List of contents
- PART ONE: ENGAGING STUDENTS THROUGH PEDAGOGIES
- 1. Teaching literacies: Principles and practices
- 2. Thinking about Planning for Literacies Learning
- 3. Planning for Literacies Learning: Using Backward Design for an Inquiry Project
- 4. Literacies Assessment: Theory and Practice
- 5. The New Grammar for Reading and Writing: Literature in the 'Brave New World'
- 6. Planning for Literacies Learning in the Arts: A Dual View
- 7. Planning for the Learning of Literacies Across the Curriculum: Using Authentic Assessment to Engage Students
- 8. Using Digital Texts to Engage Students
- 9. Popular Culture in the Classroom: A Plethora of Possibilities
- PART TWO: ENSURING LITERACY LEARNING FOR ALL STUDENTS
- 10. Socially Just Literacy Education: What Could Reform Look Like in Schools?
- 11. (Re)Focusing the Lens Beyond Deficit: Making Diversity and Difference in Schools Visible
- 12. Valuing Students' Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Multiliteracies Project in a Remote Indigenous Community
- 13. An Holistic Approach for Supporting Written Literacy Skills for EAL/D Learners
- 14. Critical Literacy with EAL Learners: Making the Most of Learners' Diverse Languages
- 15. Literacy Learning for Students in Rural Communities
- 16. Activating Multimodal Approaches to Literacy Learning in the Diverse Suburban Classroom
- 17. Teaching Literacies: Pedagogical Possibilities
About the author
Robyn Henderson is an Associate Professor in the School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood at the University of Southern Queensland.
Summary
Teaching Literacies: Pedagogies and Diversity, Second Edition addresses the teaching of literacy in relation to the middle years of schooling. It provides the foundations for understanding some of the issues and challenges in working with middle years' students in the current Australian context. All chapters are theoretically grounded in a socio-cultural perspective of literacy.
