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“On Reading Recipes and Racing Forms”—The Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Vocational Educators
Author(s) -
Darvin Jacqueline
Publication year - 2006
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 - 10.1598/jaal.50.1.2
Subject(s) - vocational education , reading (process) , newspaper , literacy , interview , perception , psychology , pedagogy , mathematics education , the internet , sociology , computer science , political science , media studies , world wide web , neuroscience , anthropology , law
The author studied the literacy practices and perceptions of vocational educators, interviewing and observing them extensively for seven years. The vocational teachers used just as many texts as academic teachers, but used them differently —and although they used complex technical manuals, trade publications, schematics, diagrams, graphic representations, special interest magazines, newspapers, legal documents, safety codes, and Internet resources for specific purposes, the majority of vocational teachers claimed that they were not good readers. The findings of this study show that vocational educators employ literacy practices in their classrooms that mirror the best documented strategies of teaching reading in the content areas.