EDRD 7210 - Family and Community Literacies

3 Credit Hours
Description
This course focuses on scholarship by literacy and language researchers who utilize diverse methodologies and practical applications in understanding families’ literate and community lives and learning. This course involves learning and working with diverse populations, in and out of school contexts, thorough nonprofit sectors and parent, family and community agencies for human learning and development. In addition, this course allows students to consider critical contemporary perspectives, related to family and school involvement, the role of class and culture in literacy, popular culture and digital and social media.