EDF3007 Developing multiple literacies in education

This unit enables you to develop knowledge, skills and understandings of how to engage with young and adolescent learners across discipline areas through your language and literacy practices. Drawing on a range of Australian and international research literature, and linking theory and practice, you will work collaboratively and individually to develop deep understandings of language and literacy (including numerical literacy) as complex social, cultural, political and technological practices that develop in multiple contexts, in and out of schools and classrooms. You will apply your emerging knowledge and skills in these areas to creatively and critically inquire into a range of educational scenarios involving literacy development and learning. You will learn about and undertake ethnographic research into your own literacy practices, and those of students and teachers in diverse educational contexts. In learning from research and through conducting your own inquiries, you will develop an appreciation of how language and literacy practices play key roles in mediating diverse learners' identities, relationships and understandings of the world.