The act of social studies is a social situation where the study of people involving social literacy. From what I have seen in my placement as well as in other scholastic situations this literacy is indicative of the actions that they share with peers, authority figures such as teachers as well as the curriculum. Within the classroom the teacher and the students have a relationship that spans throughout the year. This is not the only way that they form literacy though, as it is also accomplished through the texts that the pupils interact with.
So the question there lies within how the social aspects of both the classroom and the interaction with the text builds these social literacies. How it is accomplished? In what ways can these literacies be established and how did they come about? While I know there is much research ahead, and that I may not answer all of these questions, I have found some of these have had a serious amount of care and collect.
Through some research and examination, information on what ways literacy is established within a classroom has come to light. Through several examples literacy can be formed. One of the main examples is a think-pair-share. This activity starts as a question posed to the entire class, then students are asked to evaluate the question and then share with a partner. This information is both helpful and necessary in a secondary classroom.
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Your content area is social studies- are you researching how we can teach critical literacy in that content area, or how critical literacy can be used to teach the content? I am a little unclear on your research topic. I always enjoyed social studies/history in school, so I am exited to see where you go with this.
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Jena, I think you have a good start in thinking about where you want to go with this inquiry blog. As Bailey said, however, I am a little confused about your actual topic question. Can you clarify for me what social literacy is? How does a think-pair-share activity fit into the concept of social literacy?
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I, also, wanted to see what your specific research topic is for this Inquiry Blog. Also, I want to see more connections with literacy and social studies.
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Social Literacy is more than reading, writing and many of the other literacies we have discussed. Social literacy belongs within the context of social interaction. Therefore I am examining what it means to have a social literacy among the context of Social Studies, the ways that students interact and react to the pieces within the curriculum and the way that they interact with each other.
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One concept that I think may be helpful for you as you begin your inquiry would be Rosenblatt’s concept of transaction alongside Vygotsky’s explanation of mediation. I have both of these primary texts, if you want to look through them and see if you can use them as a starting point for you to find research that is applying these concepts (transaction and mediation) in the classroom context.
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