Pedagogical Literacy: What It Means and What It Allows

From Section:

Theories & Approaches

Authors:

Maclellan Effie

Published:

Nov. 10, 2008

Source: Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 24, Issue 8, November 2008, P. 1986-1992

In the context of literacy being understood as an evolving concept, this article argues that pedagogical literacy, is an important cognitive tool for a developed conceptualisation of pedagogical content knowledge and that, by extension, being pedagogically literate is an integral feature of being a professional teacher. Pedagogical literacy is a reflexive concept in which reading and writing (through a knowledge-transforming model) about pedagogical content knowledge is the essential means through which the teacher's pedagogical reasoning develops.

Updated: Oct. 30, 2019

Keywords:

Literacy | Pedagogical content knowledge | Teacher competencies | Teaching as a profession

Link to Item: http://education.eng.macam.ac.il/article/1040