ECL470 - Children's Literature in the Classroom

Unit details

Note: You are seeing the 2013 view of this unit information. These details may no longer be current.

Offering information:	Not offered 2013, re-offered 2014. This unit is offered in wholly online mode. Attending on-campus classes is not required.
Enrolment modes:	(ONLINE)
Credit point(s):	1
EFTSL value:	0.125
Cohort rule:	Student must be enrolled in course D342, D344, D347, D389, E356, E365, E377, E455, or E460.
Unit chair:	J O'Mara
Incompatible with:	ECL339, ECL770, ELE603
Note: This unit is taught through CloudDeakin. Weekly participation is required.

Content

This unit examines a range of issues related to literature for young people and their implications for the primary and secondary classroom. Topics covered include picture books and visual literacy, fantasy and other worlds, issues of representation and ideology and their implications for in and out of school reading practices, and sociocultural perspectives on the teaching of children's literature. It considers issues in reading and teaching a range of literacy and popular culture texts in both print and nonprint modes.

Assessment

Assignment 1: Teaching visual texts (2000 words, 60%).

Assignment 2: Collation of online postings (2000 words, 40%).

Prescribed texts

Bull, G & Anstey, M 2002 Crossing the Boundaries, Prentice Hall, Frenchs Forrest, NSW.

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*	Student Contribution Rate**	Fee rate - Domestic Students	Fee rate - International students
$733	$587	$2299	$2449

* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.