Course Description
A historical examination of literacy education from colonial America to the present.
Athena Title
HIST LITERACY EDUC
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LLED 8340
Non-Traditional Format
Delivery mode is asynchronous. Course design is a self-paced, modular study course for some of the written assignments. Collaboration with other students required for the discussion where grades depend on getting responses to postings as well as number and timing of postings. There are no face-to-face meetings. E-mail as needed to communicate with individual students or to send messages to all students. Discussion boards weekly. Wiki-blogs to be determined by person teaching the course. Skype/other similar technologies to be determined by person teaching the course. Written feedback will be given weekly to students on assignments. Distance education and digital tools are a changing landscape. The instructor of record will make decisions about what technologies to use.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will: 1. develop a historical understanding of the practices, trends and issues in education for literacy. 2. consider connections between educational trends and the social, economic and political context. 3. conduct historical research.
Topical Outline
1. Origins of literacy 2. Colonial America and education 3. Education for a new nation 4. Civil rights and literacy education 5. Immigrants and literacy education 6. Literacy and the progressive era 7. Pioneers in literacy education 8. Trends in teaching methods 9. Trends in testing and examinations