LitEd. Literacy i lærerutdanning En studie av teksthendelser knyttet til narrativer

Prosjektsamandrag

That current understandings of disciplinary literacy are not sufficient to foster students’ disciplinary literacy presents a notable challenge. The main goal in the LitEd project is to investigate approaches for strengthening disciplinary literacy in Norwegian teacher education. The project will investigate how working on literacy events related to narratives during preservice teachers’ practicum may expand the preservice teachers’ understanding and application of disciplinary literacy. LitEd will address disciplinary literacy in the four school subjects Mathematics, Norwegian, English and Religious Education (RE) and in close collaboration with the field of practice (Rubbestadneset, Hafslo and Kirkevoll schools). The main research question is: How can preservice teachers’ understandings and applications of disciplinary literacy in the four school subjects Mathematics, Norwegian, English and Religious Education (RE) change through collaboration with practice teachers and teacher educators during their practicum?

Over two yearly cycles, we will collect and analyze qualitative data from the literacy events following an Educational Design Research process. Each discipline will investigate their specific literacy practices through individual WPs and these results will be compared in order to provide a comprehensive overview of disciplinary literacy practices in Norwegian classrooms.

Previous research has to a large degree focused only on specific aspects of literacy training while ignoring others. For example, studies look at either reading or writing literacies or are restricted to the students’ proficiency levels without taking classroom contexts sufficiently into account. LitEd will be the first study to combine these perspectives in an investigation of disciplinary literacy within teacher education. Furthermore, choosing narratives as a common line of inquiry will allow us to compare disciplinary practices across school subjects in a way that has never been done before.