Imperatives to connect the worlds of home and school, evident in global policies family engagement partnership initiatives between teachers parents support children’s education are viewed as key dimensions academic success. However, developing ways meaningfully engage teachers, students learning ecologies remains elusive, contested increasingly complex digital age. Teachers encouraged draw on their students’ ‘funds knowledge’ create innovative opportunities develop capacities for creativity...

The currency of intercultural education has risen worldwide in response to increased diversity within societies resulting from migration and global flows populations. As becomes a core responsibility schooling, critical, detailed analysis pedagogies for teachers' own learning is largely absent research, contrast attention developing students' capabilities theoretical policy analyses. In beginning address this limitation, article offers reflexive our use the efficacy using autobiographical...

This article draws on outcomes of a study which explored changes in teachers' literacy pedagogies as result their participation collaborative teacher professional learning project. The educational usability schemas drawn from multiliteracies and Learning by Design theory is illustrated through case teacher's work website exploration design with 8- to 11-year-olds. sought develop pedagogical responses were cognisant multimodal shifts resulting an increasingly digitised, networked...

This paper draws on outcomes of a case study which explored changes in teachers' literacy pedagogies as result their participation purpose-driven teacher professional learning project. The teachers sought to develop classroom responses were cognisant multimodal shifts resulting from an increasingly digitised, networked communications environment. Recognising the powerful influence student outcomes, investigate means for influencing print-based incorporate multimodality practices. Four...

Abstract Contemporary students, accustomed to the agency and multimodality afforded by digital media in their out‐of‐school lives, require literature pedagogies that provide currency appeal while furthering understandings of literary techniques. Literature circles have long promoted student voice choice but can lack criticality attention devices fail capitalize on potential technologies. The authors explore circle designed develop knowledge theme mood, highlighting multimodal responses...

Purpose In response to threats teacher autonomy and creativity by measurements of quality through student performance on high-stakes test scores standardised professional learning, this study aims explore collaborative research for opportunities promotion agency. Design/methodology/approach The authors the following question: How is agentic into English teaching that integrates information communication technologies creative critical thinking enabled? Using ethnographic tools an analytical...

The introduction of the Literature strand within Australian Curriculum requires all teachers to engage students in print and digital literature that embrace cross-curriculum priorities support examine, evaluate, discuss literary texts. However, such curriculum change assumes primary school who have often not studied as a specific method, confidence content pedagogical knowledge plan implement programs. This paper investigates teachers’ views their level preparedness teach literature, explore...

Focusing on teachers' practices amid a national curriculum 'implementation' project for schools identified as having high enrolments of students experiencing disadvantage, this paper uses narrative methods to illustrate what we refer everyday work-for-change. Teacher interview data was generated via longitudinal multi-site case study. Two teachers at one school are selected detailed attention because—despite their significant engagement, commitment, and work towards enacting the new...

In line with global trends, Australian educational policy emphatically recognises the need for contemporary learners to be digitally literate, provision of ‘one-to-one’ devices individual in schools a major implementation strategy. However, without teacher commitment, benefits such investment one-to-one programs are undermined and themselves under-utilised. Too often, focus on hardware is not accompanied by insight into organisational learning change required pedagogical practices. knowledge...

This paper reports on a study that investigated pre-service teachers' digital funds of knowledge and their perceptions the pedagogies practices in early years literacy classrooms.It also explores experiences " produsing" cumulative multimodal portfolio (in form wiki) its application for future teaching learning.Specifically, 123 education students enrolled second year an undergraduate initial-teacher course at Australian university completed anonymous survey.The results show this group were...

This article reports on a collaborative project between middle school teachers and university researchers exploring the impact of one to netbook program literacy teaching learning at Australian primary school. Following traditions ethnographic classroom research practitioner in literacy, we describe analyse evolution teacher knowledge understandings informing processes reshaping print based pedagogies practices within digital environments. The study sought explore possibilities one-to-one...