Reading to Learn, Reading the World - How Genre-based Literacy Pedagogy is Democratizing Education - Claire Acevedo
Bridging the Gap between Sign Language and Written Texts for Students who are Deaf or have a Hearing Loss
Reading to Learn, Reading the World - How Genre-based Literacy Pedagogy is Democratizing Education - Claire Acevedo
Ann-Christin Lövstedt [+]
Independent Scholar
Ann-Christin Lövstedt is a freelance teacher educator and consultant based in Sweden. She is an experienced secondary school leader and language teacher with a specialization in multicultural education and teaching Swedish as a Second Language. She has worked throughout Europe in primary, secondary and tertiary education in project management and education research roles. She specializes in whole school development and leading teacher professional learning for literacy education using the genre-based pedagogy Reading to Learn in schools in Sweden. She is the Chair of Reading for Life, Sweden, and was the project leader for the European Union funded project Teacher Learning for European Literacy Education (TeL4ELE) 2011 - 2013.
Description
A conference in Sweden organized by Ann-Christin Lövstedt brought R2L to Europe, at a time when large scale migration was widening inequalities in schools. Working with Claire Acevedo, Ann-Christin introduced the methodology to Swedish schools. In Chapter 7, Ann-Christin describes an extraordinary project to adapt the methodology for teachers working in Swedish Sign Language (SSL) in a school for deaf and hearing-impaired students.