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Making Connections: teaching in the adult literacy and numeracy classroom
Jacquie WidinUniversity of Technology, Sydney
1. Introduction
• Background to the project:• What are the attributes of an effective adult language,
literacy and /or numeracy teacher?
• How do the teachers manage to integrate the vocational education course with the teaching of English?
• How do the teachers develop a strong group/cohort identity among the learners?
• What insights can we gain by seeing practices in terms
of a post-method pedagogy and the social capital outcomes of teaching?
• The Setting
• The learners
• The teachers
DVD Excerpt 1
‘a thoroughly relational practice’ Noddings (2003: 249)
• What do we mean by making connections?
• - connections amongst the learners
• - connections between the learners and teachers
• - connections between and within the the classroom and the social world
Post-method pedagogy
• Kumaravadivelu (2003) describes teaching as a relationship between three dimensions:
• Particularity
• Practicality
• Possibility
Social Capital Outcomes
• Balatti, Black and Falk (2006)
• Social Capital derives from:
• Networks with students• Networks with staff
• Formal class networks
DVD Excerpt 2.
• Evidence that teaching is a thoroughly relational activity,
• The teachers are working ‘beyond methods’,
• Students are accumulating social capital
In conclusion:
• What can we say about the attributes of an effective teacher?
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