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Literacies and Education 2013
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Welcome! This course, an elective in the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program, explores peoples ways with words, in and out of schools, families, institutions, cultures, and societies. It's about the work of literacies in making art and change -- and in keeping things the same.
This is the online community space for conversation reflection. Please enter in a spirit of respectful inquiry and wide possibility!
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A Bob Book Journal
I have decided to try writing my journal entries by hand, for now, because I like the idea of including some illustrations to supplement my text. Below is a picture of my first entry. I find it interesting to use an online blog format to present what is a very simplistic page in person, and I think the intersections of these mediums will be generative.
A quote from the journal:
"Will you play with me? No, I'm reading. Why are you reading? Shh, one more chapter. Okay...has it been a chapter? Shh, you should get your books. No, I cant. Did you try? Yes, I tried. Try again. Now."
This quote is a scene as I remember it playing out in my childhood with my older sister. She insisted that I could learn to read on my own--and that she would only want to associate with me if I did. She thought that I was much too old at 4 to rely on others for reading stories or street signs or labels in the grocery store. As it turned out, I really did only need the final push. I sat for at least an hour with my Bob Books, which only presented limited letters at a time, learning to read. I could read the first set of books by the time my sister thought to ask me how I had fared.
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"The Lesson of Grace in Teaching" AKA "Your accomplishments are NOT what make you a worthy human being!"
As I read your thoughtful writings about your goals and backgrounds, I thought of this recent article a friend shared with me: http://mathyawp.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-lesson-of-grace-in-teaching.html. It's about breaking with the tyranny of perfectionism!
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Literacy Experience Excerpts
Please add a selection from your first literacy journal entry here. Also, please respond to at least one post by someone else in your group, and try to spread out responses so everyone is included.
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