Using Inquiry to Develop Agricultural Education Preservice Teachers’ Disciplinary Literacy Pedagogy

Using Inquiry to Develop Agricultural Education Preservice Teachers’ Disciplinary Literacy Pedagogy

In this study, we examined using a Disciplinary Literacy Project (DLP) to develop secondary agricultural education preservice teachers’ disciplinary literacy perspectives and practices. Our findings revealed that the three preservice teachers developed a deeper understanding of agricultural literacies and applied this knowledge in different ways to scaffold students’ engagement with discipline-specific practices. Implications include that disciplinary literacy inquiry projects can strengthen beginning teachers’ understanding of discipline-specific literacy practices and habits of thinking and encourage teachers to scaffold their students in authentic disciplinary practices.

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Lemley, S., & Hart, S. (2019). Using Inquiry to Develop Agricultural Education Preservice Teachers’ Disciplinary Literacy Pedagogy. Journal of Agricultural Education, 60(4), 149-163.