Fostering multiliteracies pedagogy through preservice teacher education |
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| Authors: | Jennifer Rowsell Clare Kosnik Clive Beck |
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| Institution: | 1. Graduate School of Education , Rutgers University , New Brunswick, NJ 08901‐1183, USA jrowsell@rci.rutgers.edu;3. Centre for Teacher Development, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning , OISE/University of Toronto , Toronto, Ontario, Canada , M5S 1V6 |
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| Abstract: | Teacher education for literacy teaching is often fairly narrow in focus. New approaches are needed that are sociocultural in orientation and take due account of the diversity of language forms, both traditional and contemporary, formal and informal, literary and non‐literary. We believe this need can be met by largely adopting a ‘multiliteracies’ approach as articulated by the New London Group. This research examined the ideas and practices of 10 literacy faculty in a large school of education and 22 first year literacy teachers from the same institution. It found that despite some important advances in a multiliteracies direction, many shortcomings remained. Part of the difficulty was lack of clarity about the nature and purpose of multiliteracies pedagogy. This paper has two main purposes: first, to attempt to clarify the nature and importance of a multiliteracies approach; and second, to report on the successes achieved and challenges encountered in moving in this direction in one school of education. |
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| Keywords: | multiliteracies preservice teacher education literacy teaching |
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