LLED 441 an online course on Children’s Literature K-12 is an opportunity to study children’s literature as a resource for developing multiliteracies across the curriculum. The multimodal forms of literature offer content and inspiration for transformative activities and reflective thinking that serve students literacy and literary development needs.
Assignments include multimodal responses to key issues such as
the purpose and value of a literary canon, the creation of canons that serve particular student populations, popular sequential visual narrative forms, and literature as a resource for developing empathy and motivating social action. This course is taught by Kathryn Shoemaker, PhD, LLED Sessional Instructor, Ischool Adjunct Faculty. The course is offered this fall and runs from September 2- November 28, 2014.