CURR 614 - Reading and Literacy Learning in a Diverse Society

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0

The course focuses on issues of concern to reading and literacy teachers in our increasingly multicultural society. Emphasis is placed upon research - both quantitative and qualitative - that has examined the characteristics and needs of children from diverse social, cultural and language backgrounds. Major perspectives offered in the course critically examine pedagogies that are particularly designed for such diverse students, including critical pedagogies and multiple illiteracies perspectives. Offered when demand is sufficient.