Abstract
From a New Literacies Studies (NLS) perspective, deep learning involves the acquisition of social and cultural competencies valued within a disciplinary community, not merely propositional displays of what one knows. Drawn from a year-long qualitative inquiry, this case study examines how one exemplary second-grade literacy teacher taught toward deep learning, using a pedagogy of multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996). Selected episodes of instruction were analyzed in two phases. Initially, data were examined for evidence of three main competency sets of deep learning--cognitive, inter-personal, and intra-personal (National Research Council, 2012). In the latter phase, analysis focused on the teacher’s pedagogical stances of situated practice, overt instruction, critical framing, and transformed practice (NLG, 1996). Findings suggest that teaching for deep learning involved overt instruction of cognitive processes. Additionally, the teacher modeled critical framing processes of disciplinary practices situated within student-centered projects. Implications include how responsive literacy instruction may prime students’ readiness to cultivate deep learning competencies. Inside today’s classrooms, teaching for deep learning may necessitate addressing domain-based practices together with socially oriented work dispositions, allowing for both a production-oriented, text-centric view of learning (NLG, 1996) and an orientation toward space, spontaneity, and emergence in literacy engagement (Leander & Boldt, 2013).
Description
This article is originally published as an open access article in the Journal of Language & Literacy Education, a scholarly journal housed in the Department of Language & Literacy Education in the College of Education at the University of Georgia.
Publisher
University of Georgia, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Date of publication
Spring 2018
Language
english
Persistent identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/2337
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Bogard, Treavor; Consalvo, Annamary; and Worthy, Jo, "Teaching for Deep Learning in a Second Grade Literacy Classroom" (2018). Education Faculty Publications and Presentations. Paper 26.
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/2337
Publisher Citation
Bogard, T., Consalvo, A., & Worthy, J. (2018, Spring). Teaching for deep learning in a second-grade literacy classroom. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 14(1), 1-26.