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Interdisciplinary literacy through social media in the mathematics classroom: an action research study

journal contribution
posted on 2013-09-01, 00:00 authored by Gail Casey
This article looks at how social and participatory media can be used to strengthen interdisciplinary literacy and connects the multimodality of social environments with Middle-Years Mathematics curriculum and delivery. The article reports on part of an eighteen months action research study in an Australian public high school within the author's two Year 8 Mathematics classes. The article provides student samples from within these classes as it contributes evidence and analyses that may help to inform teachers from across subject areas to recognise and implement literacy practices, not as an isolated classroom activity, but across their disciplines. By taking a more ‘social’ approach to designing projects for Middle-Years Mathematics, this study supports concepts of literacy as a social, cognitive and cultural practice.

History

Journal

Journal of adolescent & adult literacy

Volume

57

Issue

1

Pagination

60 - 71

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

Location

Chichester, England

ISSN

1081-3004

eISSN

1936-2706

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article

Copyright notice

2013, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing