History+of+Teaching+Literacy

The following short videos represent our efforts to represent our understandings of the last 50 years of literacy instruction as presented by Finders & Hynds (2003). We created and presented timelines representing 5 major areas of literacy instruction in conjunction with major events connected to social justice issues that occurred during these time periods as well. In addition, we speculated a little bit about what the next major phase of literacy instruction is, and there is a final video providing an overview of the timeline activity. There are 7 short videos total...

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 * Literacy as Text: Product-Centered Approaches //(1960s to early 1970s)//**

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 * Literacy as Cognitive Process //(late 1960s to early 1980s)//**

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 * Literacy as Personal Growth //(late 1970s to early 1990s)//**

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 * Literacy as Sociocultural Process //(early 1960's to early 1990's)//**

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 * Sociopolitical Practice //(late1980s to 2000s)//**

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 * Current or Next Major Era of Literacy Instruction?**

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 * History of Teaching Literacy Overview**