Preparing Preservice Educators to Teach Critical, Place-Based Literacies

Secondary education means helping students develop a diverse repertoire of literacy skills, but the focus has been on disciplinary and digital literacies practiced by geographically distributed communities (an international, middle class curriculum) rather than on practices associated with orality,...

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Published inJournal of adolescent & adult literacy Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 413 - 420
Main Author Mendoza, Anna
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Wiley-Blackwell 01.01.2018
Subjects
Case Studies
Course Descriptions
Critical Literacy
Cultural Background
Field Trips
Group Discussion
Immigrants
Indigenous Populations
Literacy Education
Minority Groups
Place Based Education
Preservice Teachers
Qualitative Research
Secondary School Students
Student Attitudes
Teacher Education Programs
Teaching Methods
Technological Literacy
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Summary:Secondary education means helping students develop a diverse repertoire of literacy skills, but the focus has been on disciplinary and digital literacies practiced by geographically distributed communities (an international, middle class curriculum) rather than on practices associated with orality, the trades, and minority, immigrant, and Indigenous knowledges. In contrast, critical approaches to literacy instruction recognize the need to incorporate students' place-based funds of knowledge into the curriculum. To illustrate one such approach, this article presents a case study of practitioner research in a secondary teacher education program. Although the syllabus of a core course on adolescent literacies focused on academic and digital ones, teacher candidates who participated in a form of qualitative inquiry called Indigenous "métissage" had much to say about place-based funds of knowledge in their subject areas during a field trip and class discussion. These findings suggest that critical, place-based literacy may be an untapped resource in teacher education.
ISSN:1081-3004
DOI:10.1002/jaal.708