Infusing arts/multimedia into a secondary pre-service course on language and literacy across the disciplines as imaginative and critical practices

• Main Authors: Anne-Marie LaMonde, Theresa Rogers
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada 1944-12-01
• Series: Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal
• Online Access: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/16332

This paper reports on a three-year project in which we infused arts-based media and digital learning into a mandatory language and literacy course for secondary pre-service teachers at a major Canadian university. Our underlying model favours dynamic, critical and transformative learning across modes, genres and social spaces in the secondary curriculum. We found prospective teachers to be committed to engaging in new media as a way to expand notions of literacy, author new genres of communication, and to be more engaging and inclusive of all students, yet they often remained sceptical of uncritical approaches.