Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World

216 Pages·2013·0.967 MB·English

by  Peter Williamson (auth.), Clare Kosnik, Jennifer Rowsell, Peter Williamson, Rob Simon, Clive Beck (eds.)

Literacy Teacher Educators

Literacy Teacher Educators
Preparing Teachers for a Changing World
Edited by;
Clare Kosnik
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jennifer Rowsell
Brock University, Ontario, Canada
Peter Williamson
University of San Francisco, California, USA
Rob Simon
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
and
Clive Beck
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dedication vii
Acknowledgements ix
Contributors xi
Foreword: The Critical Literacies of Teaching xv
Susan L. Lytle
Introduction 1
Peter Williamson
Section 1: Current Issues Facing Literacy Teacher Education
Cultivating Diversity Through Critical Literacy in Teacher Education 7
Rebecca Rogers
Literacy Education and Gender: Which Boys? Which Girls? 21
David Booth
Walking the Talk: Towards a Notion of Multiliteracies in Literacy Teacher
Education 35
Mary Gene Saudelli & Jennifer Rowsell
Section 2: Literacy Teacher Educators’ Practices
Critical Inquiry Into Literacy Teacher Education: Accounting for Students 51
María Paula Ghiso, Tamara Spencer, Lan Ngo & Gerald Campano
Leading Literacies: Literacy Teacher Education for Inclusion and
Social Justice 65
Karen Dooley, Beryl Exley & Barbara Comber
Living and Learning Critical Literacy in the University Classroom 79
Vivian Vasquez
Literacy Teacher Education to Support Children’s Multi-Modal and
Print-Based Literacies 93
Shelley Stagg Peterson
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Difficult Dialogues in Literacy (Urban) Teacher Education 107
Valerie Kinloch
Literacy Teacher Education as Critical Inquiry 121
Rob Simon
Engaging Literacy Practices Through Inquiry and Enactment in
Teacher Education 135
Peter Williamson
Multimodal Literacy at King’s College London 149
Bethan Marshall
Using Our Research to Reframe Our Literacy Courses:
A Work-in-Progress 161
Clare Kosnik & Lydia Menna
Multiliteracies: A Slow Movement in LiteraCy Minor 175
Maureen Walsh & Cal Durrant
Section 3: Conclusion
The Shifting Landscape of Literacy Teacher Education:
Working with Integrity, Commitment, Skill, and Vision 191
Clare Kosnik, Jennifer Rowsell & Rob Simon
Index 205
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DEDICATION
To literacy teacher educators around the world, whose creative, skillful, and
dedicated work is of such value to beginning literacy teachers.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We wish to thank Michel Lokhorst from Sense Publishing for his support from the
initial steps of this very innovative project through all of the stages of development
and production. Thank you for helping us share the voices of literacy teacher
educators from around the world.
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