EDF4123 Literacy across the years

This unit orients you to the notion of literacy practice as fundamental to living in the world and how we learn, both formally and informally. It positions literacy practices in relationship to learning. It examines literacy/literacies across the years as a set of practices which are socially situated, developing from birth and beyond. You will explore how meanings are made and communicated through various modes, including reading, writing, speaking and viewing. Digital technologies are explored as potentially powerful ways to support and enhance positive relationships and engagement with literacy across a range of settings. Developing communicative competence in these ways connects you to out-of-school practices with those associated with schooling. Through the course of the unit, you will become observers of your own meaning-making practices and reflect on connections to the shifting contexts in which you live and work.