Semester 96-1
EDUC 341 - 3 LITERACY, EDUCATION AND CULTURE
Section: E1.00
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Scheduled Final Exam: Y
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Instructor:
K. Egan
Office: 8668mpc
Tel:
291-4671
Fax:
291-3203
E-mail:
Kieran_Egan@sfu.ca
PREREQUISITE
60 credit hours
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course provides an introduction to the study of literacy from an interdisciplinary perspective. We shall explore the
origins of western literacy, the conditions of which favored its development and the role of literacy in social evolution,
the economic and cultural values of literacy, and the effects of literacy on cognitive processes. Of particular interest is
the reliance on formal educational institutions for the mass transmission of literacy. We will be looking in some detail
at the varying conceptions of literacy that educators have traditionally valued, and we will be looking at some of the
current research and scholarship that attempts to explain, justify and prescribe educational practices intended to
increase literacy.
OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, students should be able to identify, analyze, and justify or criticize the aesthetic,
communicative, cognitive and socially-transformative consequences attributed to or associated with the acquisition of
literacy. They should know something of its history and be aware of the range of definitions traditionally currently
given to literacy. They should have some understanding of the distinctive contributions of conceptual study and
empirical reseach into literacy, and understand both the capacities and limitations of each of these approaches to
literacy, research and practice.
REQUIREMENTS
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READINGS
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Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
WMC 1300 291-3524
EDUCATION 341-3 ?
LITERACY, EDUCATION AND CULTURE
An introduction to the study of literacy from an interdisciplinary perspective,
one which explores the role of literacy in social development, the economic and
cultural values of literacy, and the effects of literacy on cognitive processes. The
particular concern of this course is with the formal transmission of literacy in
educational institutions. The course will especially address the varying
conceptions of literacy that educators have traditionally valued, and the research
that aims to explain, justify, and prescribe educational practices intended to
increase literacy. This course is required for the Certificate in Literacy
Instruction.
PREREQUISITE: 60 credit hours.
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DeCastell, S., Luke, A., & Egan, K. (eds.) (1986)
Literacy, Society and Schooling: A
Reader.
Cambridge University Press.
Kingten, E., Kroll, B., & Rose, M. (eds.) (1988).
Perspectives on Literacy.
Southern
Illinois University Press.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Four assignments.
9/3/93
COURSE INSTRUCTOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES WITHOUT NOTICE.
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Centre for Distance Education
Simon Fraser University
WMC 1300 291-3524
Faculty of Education
EDUCATION 341-3
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LITERACY, EDUCATION AND CULTURE
An introduction to the study of literacy from an interdisciplinary perspective,
one which explores the role of literacy in social development, the economic and
cultural values of literacy, and the effects of literacy on cognitive processes. The
particular concern of this course is with the formal transmission of literacy in
educational institutions. The course will especially address the varying
conceptions of literacy that educators have traditionally valued, and the research
that aims to explain, justify, and prescribe educational practices intended to
increase literacy. This course is required for the Certificate in Literacy
Instruction.
PREREQUISITE:
60 credit hours.
REQUIRED 'rEcr:
DeCastell, S., Luke, A., & Egan, K. (eds.) (1986)
Literacy, Society and Schooling: A
Reader.
Cambridge University Press.
Kingten, E., Kroll, B., & Rose, M. (eds.) (1988).
Perspectives on Literacy.
Southern
Illinois University Press.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
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Four assignments.
9/3/93
COURSE INSTRUCTOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES WITHOUT NOTICE.
