Literacy Teacher Educators Engaging With Broader Conceptions of Literacy

• In Event: Moscone Center West Roundtable Session 10
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Abstract

This large-scale research project examined the backgrounds, pedagogies, and practices of 30 literacy teacher educators (LTEs) in five countries: Canada, the United States, England, Australia, and Singapore. This paper focuses on a subset of 10 participating LTEs from the United States. The paper considers how these LTEs invite pre-service teachers to critically examine their initial conceptions of literacy and begin to develop dispositions to work with culturally and linguistically diverse learners.

Authors

• Lydia Menna, University of Alberta

• Clare Kosnik, University of Toronto/OISE

• Pooja Dharamshi, Simon Fraser University