Queensland Year 2 Diagnostic Net and teachers' explanations of literacy failure
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Article Title | Queensland Year 2 Diagnostic Net and teachers' explanations of literacy failure |
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ERA Journal ID | 20013 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Henderson, Robyn |
Journal Title | Australian Journal of Education |
Journal Citation | 46 (1), pp. 50-65 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2002 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Ltd |
ISSN | 0004-9441 |
2050-5884 | |
Abstract | This article reports research into the ways that early childhood teachers in three schools used narratives of blame as part of their theorisation of literacy failure in relation to Queensland’s Year 2 Diagnostic Net. The teachers’ narratives clustered into three groups: blaming families, blaming children and explanations that moved beyond blame and focused instead on teaching. However, despite the range of explanations, all of the teachers in this study based their pedagogical decisions for literacy failure and intervention on a deficit model of literacy learning. It is argued that a reconceptualisation of literacy that views literacy as a social practice might assist teachers to rethink intervention in the early childhood classroom. |
Keywords | literacy, literacy education, early childhood education, educational assessment, deficit discourses, teaching process, intervention |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390203. Sociology of education |
390104. English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) | |
390302. Early childhood education | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | James Cook University |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9y491/queensland-year-2-diagnostic-net-and-teachers-explanations-of-literacy-failure
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