Breaking Out of the Package: Educating literacy and numeracy teachers with agency

Yasukawa, K

Breaking Out of the Package: Educating literacy and numeracy teachers with agency

Yasukawa, K

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Publisher:: Centre for Language & Literacy UTS
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 2010, 18 (2), pp. 75 - 87
Issue Date:: 2010-01

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dc.contributor.author	Yasukawa, K https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4553-0289	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 2010, 18 (2), pp. 75 - 87	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1441-0559	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17218
dc.description.abstract	What knowledge, skills and dispositions are needed by adult numeracy and literacy teachers to help their learners imagine and build better lives for themselves and sustainable futures for their children and community? What resources can teachers draw on to be able to exercise agency as a group of professionals to give voice to the needs and aspirations of their learners? Using the contemporary Australian adult numeracy and literacy context as a point of reflection, I argue that some degree of propensity to take risks is needed by teachers if they are to exercise agency as professional educators, and that the universities have a renewed role to play in creating spaces for educating risk-taking educators.	en_US
dc.publisher	Centre for Language & Literacy UTS	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Literacy and Numeracy Studies	en_US
dc.title	Breaking Out of the Package: Educating literacy and numeracy teachers with agency	en_US
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dc.location.activity	Sydney
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Abstract:

What knowledge, skills and dispositions are needed by adult numeracy and literacy teachers to help their learners imagine and build better lives for themselves and sustainable futures for their children and community? What resources can teachers draw on to be able to exercise agency as a group of professionals to give voice to the needs and aspirations of their learners? Using the contemporary Australian adult numeracy and literacy context as a point of reflection, I argue that some degree of propensity to take risks is needed by teachers if they are to exercise agency as professional educators, and that the universities have a renewed role to play in creating spaces for educating risk-taking educators.

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