Literacies for Learning in Further Education

1

• Literacies for Learning in Further Education
• Research Project
• From Plumbing to PunctuationWhat do we mean by
  embedded?
• North West SfL Research ForumLancaster
  University7 June 2006

2
LfLFE Research Project
www.lancs.ac.uk/lflfe/
3
Literacies for Learning in FE Project structure

• 2 universities
• 4 colleges
• 16 curriculum areas
• 32 units
• 100 students

4
Lancaster University
University of Stirling
Lancaster and Morecambe College
Preston College
Anniesland College
Perth College
Child Care
Travel Tourism
Catering Hospitality
Media Studies
Certificate in Child Care and Education
Diploma in Child Care and Education
NVQ 1 Intro to CH
NVQ 2 Food and Drink Service
Working Overseas
BTEC ND Travel Tourism
AS Media Studies
Access to HE Media Studies
Level 2
Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
Level 2
Level 3
Level 3
Level 2
Four students
Four students
Four students
Four students
Four students
Four students
Four students
Four students
5
Categories of literacy practices in learning
vocational subjects in Further Education

• Literacy practices for learning (e.g. reading and
  making notes from a text book)
• Literacy practices for assessment (e.g. producing
  an essay or a report)
• Evidence-providing literacy practices (e.g.
  completing a log book or portfolio)
• Literacy practices relating to the workplace
  (e.g. writing food orders reading to children)

6
Literacy practices for learning
7
Literacy practices for assessment
8
Evidence-providing literacy practices
9
Literacy practices in the workplace
10
Literacy practices in the workplace (on
placement)

11
Literacy practices in the workplace (a Real Work
Environment)
12
Literacy practices in the workplace (interactive
literacies)
13
Texts in Catering and Hospitality

• The following 11 slides represent some of the
  texts with which students interacted during ONE
  session in the restaurant at Lancaster and
  Morecambe College.
• These texts all involved the students reading
  and/or writing in the course of working in the
  restaurant.
• Almost all of these texts are similar to those
  they would use in a real workplace with some
  notable exceptions.

14
Students Powerpoint Presentation
15
Stillroom Duties Checklist and Stock Order Book
16
Diary page with table plan, and Indemnity Card
17
Menus
18
Daily Restaurant List and Bar Till
19
Wine list
20
Whiteboard in kitchen
21
Cash Summary Sheet and Customer Bill
22
Customer Comment Card
23
Pages from tutor-produced text to supplement log
book
24
Log book
25
Evidence-providing literacy foregrounded
26
Methods for collecting data pertaining to FE
students literacy practices outside college
include

• The clock activity to give an overview of
  students activities over a 24-hour period.
• Student-taken photographs, representing
  literacy-related activities during one week.
• Individual or group interviews leading on from
  the clock activities and/or the student-taken
  photographs.
• Possible observation of, or other data related
  to, students during an out-of-college activity,
  e.g. at work, at a club, or at home.

27
(No Transcript)
28
Literacies in everyday life
29
Paul
30
Pauls Home Literacies

• Works as a nightclub DJ
• my girlfriend bought me some decks she bought
  me two or three records a week and then I started
  collecting them
• I do it on my mates computer, go on certain
  websites He gets us on, I just pick my vinyl
• Calculates how much entrance fees to charge
• I got my mum to do that because I cant do
  maths
• Designs flyers to advertise his DJ functions
• I got a lad at the University at Preston to do
  it.
• Owns property
• the house that I am in at the moment with my
  dad, I own I think its a quarter of it, I gave
  him a lump sum towards that.
• well buy that, do that up and then hopefully
  sell it.
• Does things with his partners children
• Yeah I do a lot of reading with the kids.
• We got a cornflake box, cut it out and made
  wheels and that from a plan she had to write
  it in and then I had to write underneath

31
Increasing resonance between home and pedagogic
literacy practices

• To be more congenial to the Pauls who are
  trying to obtain a qualification
• Resonance may be encouraged by offering 11 help
  with portfolio building or even introducing
  study buddies
• The requirements for demonstrating competence
  might be brought more in line with the literacy
  demands of the industry.

32
Comparison of workplace, home and pedagogic
literacy practices

• Pedagogic literacy practices
• Mostly mono-modal
• Mostly paper-based
• Individual, non-interactive, solitary
• Linear
• Non-Agentic
• Ambiguous purpose
• Ambiguous audience
• Information provided

• Workplace and home literacy practices
• Mostly multi-modal
• Mostly multi-media
• Shared, interactive, participatory
• Non-linear
• Agentic
• Purposeful
• Clear audience
• Generative

33
Differences and overlaps among literacy practices