Undergraduate, Postgraduate - UnitEDF2301 - Multiliteracies: mediating the world

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Offered	Gippsland First semester 2013 (Day) Peninsula First semester 2013 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Mr Ibrahim Latheef (Peninsula); Ms Kelly Carabott (Gippsland)

Synopsis

This unit addresses the range of linguistic and literate demands on young children in contemporary Australia. Within a framework of multiliteracies, students will reconceptualise literacy to encompass systems of symbolic representation such as oral, written, disciplinary, artistic, technological, environmental, emotional and social literacies. Students will explore ways of analysing and extending children's representational capacities

Outcomes

Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:

identify how children make meaning through their participation and use of semiotic systems in a variety of social contexts;
describe and critique key curriculum principles for supporting the development of children's multi-literacy skills;
plan and implement ways to enhance children's use of a range of modes of communication, and
implement teaching strategies to extend children's access to technological literacies.

Assessment

Assessment task 1: (2,000 words or equivalent. 50%)
Assessment task 2: (2,000 words or equivalent. 50%)

Chief examiner(s)

Mr Ibrahim Latheef

Contact hours

3 contact hours per week, 9 hours private study including readings, completion of set tasks and self-directed learning.