Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Disciplinary literacy instruction aims to teach students to understand the unique languages of disciplines and to engage in their specific practices, supporting them in becoming disciplinary insiders within those fields (Fang & Coatoam, 2013). The article investigates how to develop a model and analytical approach to disciplinary literacy in L1 subjects, with the Danish subject as an example, encompassing various dimensions of the subject’s purpose, practice, methods and representations. Existing literacy models and analytical approaches often focus only on certain aspects of disciplinary literacy, highlighting the need for a more holistic perspective that integrates the why, what, and how dimensions of disciplinary literacy instruction. The model is applied and examined concretely in relation to the investigation of forms of disciplinary literacy that occur in two selected courses presented in a portal of digital textbooks. Methodologically, the article theoretically develops a model for disciplinary literacy, which is subsequently used to analyze and compare two educational sequences in publisher-produced educational media, focusing on examining the explanatory power of the model. The project thus has the character of a theoretical-analytical study, aiming to develop models for analyzing literacy practice. The result of the theoretical work is a model, the disciplinary literacy model, which describes categories for examining a subject’s specific literacy: educational purpose, professional practice, disciplinary methods, and disciplinary representations. The perspective of the study is to develop a theoretical-analytical approach to investigating disciplinary literacy, which in a broader perspective can enhance teachers’ didactic awareness of how different types of subjects, here educational media, are designed to support students’ development of disciplinary literacy.
Source: Acta Didactica Norden
DOI: 10.5617/adno.10799
Author: Jens Jørgen Hansen
Institution: University of Southern Denmark
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405639145