Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies

This course is for anyone interested in literacy teaching and learning, including those considering a career in education, practicing teachers interested in exploring future directions for a profession that is currently undergoing change, and community and workplace leaders whose mission includes an educational component.

The course begins by looking at the social context and goals of literacy instruction and learning. It then goes on to describe a variety of historical and contemporary literacy pedagogy approaches, including didactic, authentic, functional, and critical approaches. The course is taught from a 'Multiliteracies' perspective, which aims to broaden the definition of literacy to include today's multimodal communications as well as the diversity of literacies found in various social and cultural settings. Experiential, conceptual, analytical, and critical activities are all suggested as part of a Multiliteracies approach.

This course offers:

• Flexible deadlines: Reset deadlines based on your availability.
• Shareable certificate: Get a Certificate when you complete
• 100% online
• Beginner level
• Approx. 16 hours to complete
• Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish

Course ratings: 4.4/5

Enroll here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/literacy-teaching-learning