ERIC Number: EJ1335209
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
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Do I Really Have to Teach Them to Read and Write? Education Equity Mindset and Teaching Literacy across the College Curriculum
Nadelson, Louis S.; Baldwin, Amy; Martin, Amanda; Novy, Ron; Pachlhofer, Keith; Powell, Kevin; Shaw, Erin; Thompson, Amy; Whittingham, Jeff
Higher Education Studies, v12 n1 p26-45 2022
Reading and writing are fundamental skills students need to succeed in college, making literacy development an issue of education equity. The literacy skills can be content-specific, indicating faculty members across disciplines need to support student development of appropriate literacy skills. The extent to which faculty members support student literacy development is likely associated with their literacy-focused education equity mindset. The goal of our research was to document the mindset of faculty members across multiple disciplines. We gathered a combination of quantitative and qualitative data from 345 college faculty members using a survey. We found variations in the mindset strength between disciplines by the number of students taught, gender, and age. Overall, the faculty members held a moderate literacy-focused education equity mindset. The findings have implications for student inclusion, retention, and completion.
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Reading, Literacy, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Equal Education, Inclusion, School Holding Power, College Readiness, Student Development
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