Education 240. Multiple Perspectives on Literacy Through a
shifting focus on theory and practice, students conceptualize
and reconceptualize the roles of teacher and learner using, as
their lens, students’ literacy development. Sociocultural
contexts and the intersection of home, community, and school
form the foundation of this field-based course. Students explore
critical literacy and discourse theories, the importance of
educators’ cultural competence, issues of social justice,
exclusion, inclusion, race identity, and school wounds as they
impact learning, and reader response and what it means to bring
a mindful stance to one’s literate endeavors.