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Meeting Pedagogical Encounters Halfway
Author(s) -
Spector Karen
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.382
Subject(s) - pedagogy , reading (process) , literacy , mathematics education , sociology , literacy education , psychology , critical thinking , linguistics , philosophy
This commentary offers a critique of literacy pedagogy that focuses solely upon a best practices approach to teaching and learning and argues for a relational pedagogy that relies upon diffractive thinking, reading, and writing.