Science and literacy development as mutual processes: Texts as mediators for sensemaking in integrated science/literacy preservice methods course

• In Event: Roundtable Session VI
  In Roundtable Session: Leveraging Multiliteracies, Disciplinary Literacy, and Diverse Pedagogies

Abstract

This session analyzes texts related to sequences of activities that served to mediate productive struggle and sensemaking for preservice teachers across an integrated science/literacy unit over three years. Texts, such as posters and writing, offered multiple semiotic affordances and were transformed (re-represented) over time as preservice teachers engaged in complex reasoning. Also, these texts served as sites of communicating and rethinking pedagogies for disciplinary literacy for the two instructors, one science and one literacy.

Authors

• Patricia Paugh, University of Massachusetts Boston

• Tejaswini Dalvi, University of Massachusetts Boston