Reading to Learn, Reading the World - How Genre-based Literacy Pedagogy is Democratizing Education - Claire Acevedo
Working with Reading to Learn at Undergraduate Level in Spain: A Learning Journey
Reading to Learn, Reading the World - How Genre-based Literacy Pedagogy is Democratizing Education - Claire Acevedo
Rachel Whittaker [+]
Universidad Autónoma, Madrid
Rachel Whittaker, PhD (English Department, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid), coordinated Spain's team in the project: Teacher Learning for European Literacy Education (tel4ele.eu) which brought Reading to Learn to a number of European countries (see http://telcon2013.com/, formule.es) and Lenguaje y Textos monograph 2017, co-edited with Isabel García Parejo), and supervised the translation of Rose & Martin's Learning to Write, Reading to Learn into Spanish as Leer para aprender: lectura y escritura en las áreas del currículo (Pirámide 2018). She is active in teacher education and has published a number of articles on Reading to Learn pedagogy and on CLIL in Spain.
Isabel García-Parejo [+]
Complutense University, Madrid
Isabel García-Parejo, PhD (Spanish Language Pedagogy section of the School of Education, Complutense University, Madrid) has worked as a teacher in Adult Basic Education for eleven years and in teacher education for over twenty-five years. As coordinator of the Forum for Multilingualism research group (formule.es) she participated in the Tel4ele Comenius project and later led teaching innovation projects designed to bring Reading to Learn into L1 teacher education for undergraduates. She has published a number of articles on R2L in Spain and given talks at national and international events (Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Portugal, USA ).
Aoife Ahern [+]
Complutense University, Madrid
Aoife Ahern, PhD (Foreign Language Pedagogy section of the School of Education, Complutense University, Madrid) has worked in teacher education for over ten years. As a member of the Forum for Multilingualism (formule.es) research group she has participated in teaching innnovation and research focusing on the application of Reading to Learn to foreign language and Content and Language Integrated Learning for pre-service and in-service primary teachers, on which she has given talks and workshops at national and international (Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Portugal,) events over the past 7 years.
Description
The growing success of R2L in Sweden attracted the interest of Danish educators, so Claire Acevedo and Ann-Christin Lövstedt applied for funding from the European Union for a multi-national training program. They eventually recruited five teams of educators from Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Spain and Portugal for a three-year project, known as Teacher Learning for European Literacy Education, or TeL4ELE. In Chapter 10, Rachel Whittaker, Isabel García-Parejo and Aoife Ahern describe how this project has blossomed in Spain into a range of activities, including pre-service teacher education and service-learning.