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Contribution to Book
Disciplinary Literacy: Exemplary Processes and Promising Practices
What’s Hot in Literacy: Exemplar Models of Effective Practice
(2020)
Abstract
Purpose: To present small cases of teachers who undertook inquiry-based collaborative work to implement and refine disciplinary literacy instruction in various content areas.
Design: Disciplinary literacy is explored alongside best practices in teacher professional learning, since disciplinary literacy is an instructional shift. This chapter addresses the question of how teachers might use an exemplary collaboration process to identify and test promising disciplinary literacy instructional practices.
Findings: Findings from various research projects point toward inquiry and collaboration as promising mechanisms for refining instruction to make it more disciplinary in purpose and implementation.
Practical Implications: The authors argue that disciplinary literacy is a relatively new conception of literacy skills in various content areas, and therefore jumping immediately to exemplary practices is unwise. Instead the authors recommend collaboration and inquiry as tools to generate and refine practices thoughtfully over time.
Disciplines
Publication Date
September 30, 2020
Editor
Evan Ortlieb, Stephanie Grote-Garcia, Jack Cassidy, Earl H. Cheek Jr.
Publisher
Emerald
Series
Literacy Research, Practice and Evaluation
ISBN
978-1-83909-877-2
Citation Information
Jacy Ippolito, Megin Charner-Laird and Christina L. Dobbs. "Disciplinary Literacy: Exemplary Processes and Promising Practices" What’s Hot in Literacy: Exemplar Models of Effective Practice Vol. 11 (2020) p. 17 - 31 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jacy-ippolito/71/