Michael Newman

Designs of Academic Literacy

A Multiliteracies Examination of Academic Achievement

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This qualitative multi-case study of academic literacy is the first research to assume the premises of the Multiliteracies Project of the New London Group of literacy researchers. It takes a multimodal view of literacy, not limited to reading and writing, and sets about to uncover the Design (the flexible structuring of rules and principles) that students and teachers both follow and create in college courses. This Design takes the form of a game in which students channel content from sources, such as texts and lectures, to assessments of various kinds. Students are then rewarded in the form of grades to the extent that the content they display matches the criteria the professor sets up. The students in this study had to determine which content would or would not match these criteria, which of six types of information (facts, concepts, connections, processes, principles, or metainformation, e.g., rhetorical patterns) were desired and how best to supply them. To move content from source to target they used four operations. These include exposure (making themselves conscious of the information), extraction (a process of selecting information), manipulation (changing or synthesizing information), and display (showing the information). Greater awareness of this Design led to greater success. Pedagogical implications of this model include establishing a more realistic curricula for academic literacy programs and educating professors to better match grading criteria with learning goals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780897898379
• ISBN-10: 0897898370
• Artikelnr.: 21748238

Autorenporträt

A Hungarian refugee and the son of Holocaust survivors, Michael has received first-hand accounts of what happened during WWII in the concentration camps, particularly Mauthausen, where his father was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1944/45. Newman had the opportunity to travel, surreptitiously, to Israel during the Second Lebanon War, an experience that was written about in both the National Post and the Toronto Star. He has travelled to Europe and visited Berlin, the Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden near Munich, Hitler's wartime summer home, and Mauthausen concentration camp, locations that are featured prominently in the book. Michael lives on Toronto's waterfront with his wife, Dixie, and their cocker spaniel, Sandy. They have five kids and eleven grandchildren.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Orientation Introduction Where We Stand in the Field Methods The
Worth of a Quarter Classes Awareness of Achievement Versus Learning Types
of Information Operations on Information Playing the Game Final
Conclusions References