Disciplinary Literacies Across Content Areas:…
This article makes me wonder about it’s relevance to teaching shop. I found nothing that could be used in this article. It is a shame that students lack academic literacy skills. Ideally they should have that, I did, but then I didn’t have today’s students access to media. This is the root of my concern: as a shop teacher I am much more concerned about their lack technical skills. Academic language is not what some students of Technology Education are looking for. The shop is a refuge for them linguistically and those students have no desire to move on to post secondary and may go into the trades. It’s not that they are not smart, they just aren’t in that way.