Designed to enable educators to become discriminating consumers
and practical producers of action-oriented educational research.
The course gives teachers the opportunity to develop the
professional knowledge, skills and disposition for critical
inquiry and research development, preparation, analysis,
interpretation and evaluation. This inquiry-based course
approaches the design of school curricula with consideration for
philosophical underpinning, theoretical research related to
learning and pedagogy, cultural and political context, and
systemic change. Issues related to diversity, equity and quality
of educational experience will be explored. This course explores
the nature of literacy, including the critical features of the
developmental phases of reading and writing. The course includes
a study of the characteristics of developing readers and writers
with special emphasis on effective instructional practices. A
variety of instructional practices and literacy programs are
critiqued in relation to what it m